Power Play: Sport, the Media and Popular Culture

Author:   Raymond Boyle ,  Richard Haynes
Publisher:   Edinburgh University Press
Edition:   2nd New edition
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9780748635931


Pages:   264
Publication Date:   15 June 2009
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Raymond Boyle ,  Richard Haynes
Publisher:   Edinburgh University Press
Imprint:   Edinburgh University Press
Edition:   2nd New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.414kg
ISBN:  

9780748635931


ISBN 10:   0748635939
Pages:   264
Publication Date:   15 June 2009
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Temporarily unavailable   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

1. Sport, Media and Popular culture: Questions of Theory; 2. All our Yesterdays: A History of Media sport; 3. A Sporting triangle: Television, sport and sponsorship; 4. Power Game: Why sport Matters to Television; 5. Who Wants to Be A Millionaire? Media Sport and Stardom; 6. The Race Game: Media, sport, Race and Ethnicity; 7. For Men who Play to win; 8. Games Across frontiers; 10. Consuming Sport; 11. New Media sport.

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Raymond Boyle is a Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Culture Policy Research at the University of Glasgow. He is author of Sports Journalism: Context and Issues (2006) and co-author with Richard Haynes of Football in the New Media Age (2004) and with Neil Blain and Hugh O'Donnell of Sport and National Identity in the European Media (1993). He has published widely on sport, media and journalism and sits on the editorial Board of the journal Media, Culture and Society.Richard Haynes is a Senior Lecturer and Director of Stirling Media Research Institute, university of Stirling. He is author of Media Rights and Intellectual Property (2005) and co-author with Raymond Boyle of Football in the New Media Age (2004) and The Football Imagination: The Rise of Football Fanzine Culture (1995). He has published widely on media and sport, and has received research awards from the Carnegie Trust, the AHRC and the British Academy in his research on the history of sports broadcasting.

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