Sports semiotics

Author(s)

• Berger, Arthur Asa

Bibliographic Information

Sports semiotics

by Arthur Asa Berger

（Brill research perspectives, . Popular culture）

Brill, c2023

• : pbk

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 67)

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Sports Semiotics applies semiotics (and other disciplines, secondarily) to analyse the social, cultural, economic and psychological significance of sports. It includes a primer on semiotic theory, sections on the analysis of wrestling by Roland Barthes in his book Mythologies, as well as sections on football and the sacred, the Super Bowl, and the semiotics of televised baseball.

Table of Contents

Contents List of Figures Abstract Keywords  1 A Primer on Semiotics  2 Roland Barthes on Professional Wrestling  3 Baseball: Threes, Fours, and Exclusions  4 Fenway Park  5 Football and the Sacred  6 The Semiotics of Televised Baseball  7 The Super Bowl  8 Football: Semiotics, Psyche and Society  9 Coda  Acknowledgments  Reference

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Details

• NCID: BD03233168
• ISBN:
  • 9789004541344
• Country Code: ne
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Leiden
• Pages/Volumes: viii, 68 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • DC23 : 796.01
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Sports -- Philosophy
  • LCSH : Semiotics
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BB22202677