How Postmodernism Explains Football and Football Explains Postmodernism: The Billy Clyde Conundrum
The Billy Clyde Conundrum| By: | Robert Kerr |
| Publisher: | Springer Nature |
| Print ISBN: | 9781137555885 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781137534071 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Copyright: | 2015 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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American football and postmodernist theory are both objects of popular and scholarly interest that reveal remarkable sociological insights. Analysis of media-driven commercial football documents how narratives of sportsmanship/brutality, heroism/antiheroism, athleticism/self-indulgence, honor/chicanery, and chivalry/sexism compete and thrive.