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Sport, Spectacle, and NASCAR Nation : Consumption and the Cultural Politics of Neoliberalism.

Sport, Spectacle, and NASCAR Nation critically interrogates stockcar racing's ascendance into the upper-echelon of the North American sporting popular. While most contributions to the public discourse gloss over NASCAR's exclusively white racial identity politics, its underlying patriarcha...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Newman, Joshua I.
Otros Autores: Giardina, Michael D.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Sporting Automobility: Contextualizing NASCAR Nation; 2 The Road and Serfdom: Theorizing the Cultural Politics of Neoliberalism; 3 Consuming NASCAR Nation: Space, Spectacle, and Consumer-Citizenship; 4 NASCAR and the "Southernization" of Sporting America; 5 Racing for Jesus: Sport in Theocratic America; 6 Part I: NASCAR Nation as/in Petrol Empire; ; Part II: Militarizing NASCAR Nation; 7 Selling Out NASCAR Nation; Concluding Thoughts; Notes; References; Index.