Football delirium / Chris Oakley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Oakley, Chris.

Chris Oakley Staff, Corporate Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Soccer--Psychological aspects.

Soccer.

Soccer fans--Psychology.

Soccer fans.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (211 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Karnac, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In the tradition of Adam Phillips and Darian Leader, Chris Oakley shines his spotlight on the world of football and with wit and erudition looks at the question of why there is this worldwide preoccupation with football. Does anybody have the answer? This book argues that football offers us the possibility of manageable doses of self-elected madness. A madness that is essential for a sane life. For the paradox is that this very madness is simultaneously therapeutic: football as an insistent provocation, repeatedly re-inaugurating the reverie or drift, disrupted by those moments of the most intense fracture, moments of the autistic stare.

Contents:

CONTENTS; Introduction; Parklife; Trenchmouth; The Tableau Vivant; Living the Dream; Sex in the Stadium; Losing: My Religion; Football is Therapy; Conclusion

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

0-429-91382-6

9780429896942

0-367-32454-7

0-429-89959-9

0-429-47482-2

1-283-06952-0

9786613069528

1-84940-589-1

9780429474828

OCLC:

723944696