Sport and postmodern times

Author(s)

• Rail, Geneviève

Bibliographic Information

Sport and postmodern times

edited by Geneviève Rail

（SUNY series on sport, culture, and social relations）

State University of New York Press, c1998

• : HC
• : PB

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction Part I. Postmodern Sports Writing and the Transgression of Boundaries 1. Postmodernism and the Possibilities for Writing "Vital" Sports Texts Toni Bruce 2. "How Do You Warm-Up for a Stretch Class?": Sub/In/Di/verting Hegemonic Shoves Toward Sport Nate Kohn and Synthia Sydnor 3. Born-Again Sport: Ethics in Biographical Research Robert Rinehart Part II. Sport and the Postmodern (De)construction of Gender 4. Representing Black Masculinity and Urban Possibilities: Racism, Realism, and Hoop Dreams Cheryl L. Cole and Samantha King 5. Lesbians and Locker Rooms: The Subjective Experiences of Lesbians in Sport Caroline Fusco 6. Colonizing the Feminine: Nike's Intersections of Postfeminism and Hyperconsumption Mélisse R. Lafrance Part III. Virtual Sport, Representation, and the Postmodern Mediascape 7. Seismography of the Postmodern Condition: Three Theses on the Implosion of Sport Geneviève Rail 8. Sex, Lies, and Videotape: The Political and Cultural Economies of Celebrity Fitness Videos Margaret MacNeill 9. Excavating Michael Jordan: Notes on a Critical Pedagogy of Sporting Representation David Andrews 10. Baudrillard, "Amérique," and the Hyperreal World Cup Steve Redhead Part IV. Sport and Postmodern Body Invaders 11. Instrumental Rationalization of Human Movement: An Archeological Approach Jacques Gleyse 12. Addiction, Exercise, and Cyborgs: Technologies of Deviant Bodies Cheryl L. Cole 13. Post-Sport: Transgressing Boundaries in Physical Culture Brian Pronger Part V. Physical Culture, Consumer Culture, and Postmodern Geography 14. In Search of the Sports Bar: Masculinity, Alcohol, Sports, and the Mediation of Public Space Lawrence A. Wenner 15. Rap and Dialectical Relations: Culture, Subculture, Power, and Counter-Power Nancy Midol 16. Hassiba Boulmerka and Islamic Green: International Sports, Cultural Differences, and Their Postmodern Interpretation William J. Morgan 17. (Ir)Relevant Ring: The Symbolic Consumption of the Olympic Logo in Postmodern Media Culture Rob VanWynsberghe and Ian Ritchie Contributors Index

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Details

• NCID: BA38248090
• ISBN:
  • 0791439259
  • 0791439267
• LCCN: 97050231
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Albany, N.Y.
• Pages/Volumes: xxi, 399 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • NDC9 : 780.13
  • NDC8 : 780.13
  • LCC : GV706.5
  • DC21 : 306.4/83
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Sports -- Sociological aspects
  • LCSH : Physical education and training -- Social aspects
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA21771614