Sport, Media and Society

by Eileen Kennedy, Laura Hills

Overview

Sport is an integral component of today's media, from prime-time television to interactive websites. This book is a theoretical and methodological guide to analysing sport in its diverse mediated forms. Students of media sport are taken through techniques of analysis for film, TV, newspapers, magazines, advertisements, spaces such as stadia and museums, and the internet. The ambiguous and shifting cultural politics of sport are explored through original, researched case studies, drawn from across the UK, USA and beyond. The book encourages students to engage critically with their own experience of media sport and to develop an independent approach to analysis. As such, it will be an essential purchase for all students of media and sports studies students.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781474248129
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	03/04/2015
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	224
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Eileen Kennedy is Associate Researcher in the School of Sport and Education at Brunel University. Laura Hills is Senior Lecturer in Youth Sport in the School of Sport and Education at Brunel University.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Interacting with media sport
Chapter 1: Analysing media sport
Chapter 2: Sport on film
Chapter 3: Televised sport
Chapter 4: Sport and the press
Chapter 5: Sport and magazines
Chapter 6: Sport in advertising
Chapter 7: Sport and visual culture
Chapter 8 New Media Sportscapes: Branding and the Internet