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Author(s): Cornel Sandvoss
ISBN(s): 9780415314855, 0415314852
Edition: 1
File Details: PDF, 2.40 MB
Year: 2003
Language: english
SKU: EB-1646978 Category: Tag:

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ISBN 10: 0415314852 
ISBN 13: 9780415314855
Author: Cornel Sandvoss

Professional football is one of the most popular television ‘genres’ worldwide, attracting the support of millions of fans, and the sponsorship of powerful companies. In A Game of Two Halves, Sandvoss considers football’s relationship with television, its links with transnational capitalism, and the importance of football fandom in forming social and cultural identities around the globe. He presents the phenomenon of football as a reflection postmodern culture and globalization.Through a series of case studies, based in ethnographic audience research, Sandvoss explores the motivations and pleasures of football fans, the intense bond formed between supporters and their clubs, the implications of football consumption on political discourse and citizenship, football as a factor of cultural globalisation, and the pivotal role of football and television in a postmodern cultural order.

A Game of Two Halves Football Fandom Television and Globalisation 1st Table of contents:

Chapter 1: Introduction

Football and modernity

Part I: Football Fandom and Consumption

Chapter 2: Fan Practices and Consumption

Chapter 3: Fandom, Identity and Self-Reflection

  • Football clubs as spaces of projection

  • ‘We’, ‘they’ and the reflection of self

  • Football fandom and narcissism

Summary to Part I

Part II: The Social and Cultural Diffusion of Football

Chapter 4: The Politics of Football

  • Fandom and the public sphere

Chapter 5: Football and Cultural Globalization

  • For club and company: the economic globalization of football

  • Football, globalization and localization

  • Television football and globalization

  • Deterritorialization, fandom and community

Summary to Part II

Part III: Football and Postmodernity

Chapter 6: Football, Formal Rationality and Standardization

  • Football and McDonaldization

  • Place, space and standardization

Chapter 7: Television, Football and Hyperreality

  • Postmodern football and the limits of appropriation

Summary to Part III

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