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Examining identity in sports media / editors, Heather L. Hundley, Andrew C. Billings.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gender identity.
- Gender identity in mass media.
- Communication in sports.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 279 p.) : ill.
- Place of Publication:
- Los Angeles, [Calif.] ; London : SAGE, c2010.
- Summary:
- Communication issues involving sports media permeate myriad levels of society. Using a wide variety of theoretical and methodological constructs, this book examines various media to expose how the intersection of sport and media construct reinforce, and perpetuate perceptions of human identities.
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; 1 - Examining Identity in Sports Media; 2 - The Rene Portland Case; 3 - Exploring the Influence of Mediated Beauty; 4 - Making Masculinity and Framing Femininity; 5 - Gendered Sports Dirt; 6 - Hegemonic Masculinity and the Rogue Warrior; 7 - Do You Believe in Nationalism?; 8 - The Whiteness of Sport Media/Scholarship; 9 - A Content Analysis ofRacial Representations of NBA Athletes on Sports Illustrated MagazineCovers, 1970-2003; 10 - Sporting Images of Disability; 11 - The Effects of Outcome of Mediated and Live Sporting Events on Sports Fans' Self- and Social Identities
- 12 - The Institutional(ized) Nature of Identity in and Around Sport(s)Index; About the Editors; ABC-Hundley-45857
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781483342740
- 1483342743
- 9781483302096
- 1483302091
- 9781452274904
- 1452274908
- OCLC:
- 833764174
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