Sport and postmodern times / edited by Geneviève Rail.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rail, Geneviève, 1958- editor.

Series:

SUNY series on sport, culture, and social relations

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sports--Sociological aspects.

Sports.

Physical education and training--Social aspects.

Physical education and training.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxi, 399 pages )

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, [1998]

Summary:

Using postmodern social theory, this book expands our understanding of sport, the body, and the broader physical culture.This book provides critical insight into the questions of race, gender, sexuality, and locality in sport and society. Topics discussed include postmodern sport writing; sport and the postmodern deconstruction of gender and sexuality; virtual sport and the postmodern mediascape; discipline, normalization, rationalization, surveillance, panopticism, and other forms of power used to “invest” postmodern sporting bodies; and new perspectives on sport and physical culture, consumer culture, and postmodern geography.

Contents:

Postmodernism and the possibilities for writing "vital" sports texts / Toni Bruce

"How do you warm-up for a stretch class?": sub/in/di/verting hegemonic shoves toward sport / Nate Kohn and Synthia Sydnor

Born-again sport: ethics in biographical research / Robert Rinehart

Representing black masculinity and urban possibilities: racism, realism, and Hoop dreams / Cheryl L. Cole and Samantha King

Lesbians and locker rooms: the subjective experiences of lesbians in sport / Caroline Fusco

Colonizing the feminine: Nike's intersections of postfeminism and hyperconsumption / Mélisse R. Lafrance

Seismography of the postmodern condition: three theses on the implosion of sport / Geneviève Rail

Sex, lies, and videotape: the political and cultural economies of celebrity fitness videos / Margaret MacNeill

Excavating Michael Jordan: notes on a critical pedagogy of sporting representation / David Andrews

Baudrillard, "Amérique," and the hyperreal World Cup / Steve Redhead

Instrumental rationalization of human movement: an archeological approach / Jacques Gleyse

Addiction, exercise, and cyborgs: technologies of deviant bodies / Cheryl L. Cole

Post-sport: transgressing boundaries in physical culture / Brian Pronger

In search of the sports bar: masculinity, alcohol, sports, and the mediation of public space / Lawrence A. Wenner

Rap and dialectical relations: culture, subculture, power, and counter-power / Nancy Midol

Hassiba Boulmerka and Islamic green: international sports, cultural differences, and their postmodern interpretation / William J. Morgan

(Ir)relevant ring: the symbolic consumption of the Olympic logo in postmodern media culture / Rob VanWynsberghe and Ian Ritchie.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-4384-1674-1

0-585-06084-3