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American fan : sports mania and the culture that feeds it / Dennis Perrin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Perrin, Dennis.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sports--Anthropological aspects--United States.
- Sports.
- Sports spectators--United States.
- Sports spectators.
- Professional sports--United States.
- Professional sports.
- Sports--Anthropological aspects.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 230 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Spike, [2000]
- Summary:
- There exists in America a peculiar, fascinating subculture. Its exotic rituals include withstanding subzero temperatures with an upper body clad only in brightly colored paint, shouting arcane statistics at talk-show broadcasters, adopting the graphic images of lucrative businesses in bursts of patriotic fervor, and finding a curious but tangible form of selfesteem in the spectacle of overgrown armored men banging each other into unconsciousness. Hello, sports fans, this is a book about you. In fact, about us!
- Contents:
- Warm Up 1
- 1 The First Refuge 13
- 2 Blood & Guts 61
- 3 I, Fan 107
- 4 Nike = Death 151
- Post Game 213.
- Notes:
- "An Avon book."
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 038097732X
- OCLC:
- 41967239
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