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Playing on the Periphery: Sport, Identity and Memory (Sport in the Global Society) | 
 enlarge | Author: Tara Brabazon
Publisher: Routledge
Category: Book
List Price: $180.00
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Sales Rank: 2572498
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 233
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 6.3 x 0.8
ISBN: 0415375614
Dewey Decimal Number: 306.483
EAN: 9780415375610
ASIN: 0415375614
Publication Date: October 17, 2006
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Playing on the Periphery is an innovative exploration along the edges of the modern sports experience. Using unusual case studies and covering a range of issues, it examines how the cultural content of sports that were once the epitome of Englishness - football, cricket and rugby - has moved away from the traditional mainstream, reinterpreted by the distant cultures of a former Empire, and fragmented by the new media and economics of the modern world.
From a unique perspective and with a distinctive voice, Tara Brabazon considers sport as it relates to tourism, colonialism and popular culture. She shows how, through the media's filter - through photographs and film, stadiums, shops and exhibition spaces - sport can acquire multiple and diverse meanings. Though it may appear peripheral, as a focus for collective emotion sport is at the center of society.
For all those interested in sport, media and popular culture, this is a stimulating new text.
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