King Football : sport and spectacle in the golden age of radio and newsreels, movies and magazines, the weekly & the daily press / Michael Oriard.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Oriard, Michael, 1948-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Football--History--20th century.

Football.

Mass media and sports--History--20th century.

Mass media and sports.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 491 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This work explores the vibrant world of football from the 1920's through the 1950's, a period in which the game became deeply embedded in American life. It reconstructs a media-created world of football and looks at its deep entanglements with a modernizing American society.

Contents:

Contents; Illustrations; Preface; Introduction; The Reign of ''King Football''; Football, the Media, and American Culture; Part I. In the Kingdom of Football; 1. Reading, Watching, & Listening to Football; 2. Local Football; 3. Who Cares about Reform?; 4. Players' or Coaches' Whose Game Is It?; 5. Gridiron, U.S.A.; 6. Sanctioning Savagery; Part II. What We Think About When We Think about Football; 7. Class?; 8. Ethnicity; 9. Race; 10. Masculinity; Epilogue: Into the Age of Television; Appendix A: Football Films, 1920–1960

Appendix B: Football Covers on the Saturday Evening Post and Collier's, 1920–1960 Appendix C: Football Fiction in the Saturday Evening Post and Collier's, 1920–1960; Notes; Notes; Abbreviations; Bibliography; Index;

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [435]-470) and index.

ISBN:

979-88-908736-1-3

0-8078-6403-X

OCLC:

70740476