Case Studies In Sport Communication

Herausgeber: Brown, Robert; Orourke, Daniel

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Brown and O'Rourke have compiled a collection of ten qualitative studies analyzing the narratives that surround the physical and ritualistic activities of sport. Among the topics examined to explore the storied relationship of sport and communication are baseball, the WNBA, and soccer hooliganism. Americans love sports. We play sports, watch sports, read about sports, listen to and talk about sports. Brown and O'Rourke provide an introduction to the study of the narratives that surround the physical and ritualistic activities of sport. Ten critical analyses explore a range of sports as diverse as baseball, whitewater rafting, and full-contact fighting. Among the topics examined are the differences in the broadcasts of NBA and WNBA games and the cultural roots of hooliganism in British soccer. This is the only book of its kind to offer a compilation of qualitative research in the area of sport and communication. Faculty will find this to be an invaluable resource for beginning (or continuing) their research in this area and students will understand communication concepts explained in a new way through the popular lens of sport.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Praeger
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Dezember 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 507g
• ISBN-13: 9780275975302
• ISBN-10: 0275975304
• Artikelnr.: 21024097

Autorenporträt

ROBERT S. BROWN is Director of the Sport Communication Program and Assistant Professor of Communication at Ashland University. DANIEL J. O'ROURKE is Assistant Professor Public Communiction at Ashland University.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface by Dr. Robert S. Brown Introduction by Dr. Nick Trujillo The
Rhetorical Resurgence of Pete Rose: A Second Chance Apologia by Dr. Todd
McDorman Hoop Games: A Critical Analysis of Television Broadcasts of
Women's and Men's Professional Basketball Games by Dr. Leah R. Vande Berg
and Sarah Projansky Dueling Genders: Announcer Bias in the 1999 U.S. Open
Tennis Tournament by Dr. Andrew Billings The Talk of the Town: A Rhetorical
Analysis of the Browns' Departure from and Return to Cleveland by Dr.
Daniel J. O'Rourke Sport, (Dis)Ability, and Public Controversy: Casey
Martin v. PGA Tour, Inc., by Dr. James Cherney Regulating Sport Rationality
through the Moral Controversy of Extreme Fighting by Dr. Thomas Vaughn The
Re-Signification of Risk in Marketing Whitewater: Ritual Initiation and the
Mythology of the River Culture by Dr. Elliot Gaines Coachtalk: Good Reasons
for Winning and Losing by Dr. John Llewellyn Metaphor in Sport Policy
Debate: Parliament and British Soccer Violence by Dr. Robert S. Brown
Fifty-Eight American Dreams: The NBA Draft as Mediated Ritual by Dr.
Richard Olsen For Further Reading About the Editors/Contributors Index