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Picturing the beautiful game : a history of soccer in visual culture and art /
The world's most popular sport, soccer, has long been celebrated as "the beautiful game" for its artistry and aesthetic appeal. 'Picturing the Beautiful Game: A History of Soccer in Visual Culture and Art' is the first collection to examine the rich visual culture of soccer,...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Bloomsbury Publishing,
2018.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Cover page; Halftitle page; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; List of Illustrations and Tables; Acknowledgments; Notes on the Contributors; Terminology and Word Usage; Introduction: Picturing the Beautiful Game; Studying the Beautiful Game; Exhibiting the Beautiful Game; Picturing the Beautiful Game; Notes; Part One Soccer and Mass Media; 1 From the Oval to the Crystal Palace: The FA Cup Final and its Depiction in the Victorian Illustrated Press; 1882: Old Etonians 1 Blackburn Rovers 0; 1891: Blackburn Rovers 3 Notts County 1; 1895: Aston Villa 1 West Bromwich Albion 0; Conclusion; Notes
- 2 "Hours and Hours of Mundane Moments and Then You Get This": Motion and Punctuality in the Soccer GIFThe GIF and Barthes' Punctum; The GIF as Image; The Affective Power of the GIF; The GIF as Icon; The GIF as Fetish; Authorship and the GIF; Conclusion; Notes; Part Two Soccer and Memory; 3 Making a Spectacle of Ourselves: Imaging the Supporter at Football and the Fine Arts; Football and Postwar British Culture; Aligning Football and the Fine Arts; Football at the Festival: Expanding Cultural Boundaries; A Brief Case Study in the Art of Spectatorship: Gerald Cains' Saturday Taxpayers
- Revisiting Football and the Fine ArtsNotes; 4 The Boss in Bronze: Three Statues of Brian Clough; Brian Clough; The Bronze Brian Clough: Man of the People or the King of Clubs?; Football Manager Statues: A Passing Phenomenon or a Growing Trend?; Notes; Part Three Soccer and Modernism; 5 The Footballer as the Figure of the New Man in Italian and Russian Avant-garde, 1910s-1930s; Introduction; Footballers-the Futurist Angels of Earth; Footballer-the Soviet Icarus; Conclusion; Notes; 6 From Free Agency to Captivity: Football and Spectacle in Contemporary Art
- Modernism's Football: The Body in FreedomPostmodernism's Football: Spectacles of Confl ict and Constraint; Serious Business, Mimicry, and Subaltern Voices; Political Football: Infiltration and Social Inquiry; Football's New Pitch: The Stadium as Media Architecture; Global Brands and the Marketing of Sporting Rivalry; Notes; Part Four Soccer and Gender; 7 Feminist Art and Women's Soccer; Notes; 8 Gender, Pleasure, and the Look: Female Fans and Men's Soccer; Introduction: Women and the Media Coverage of Men's Soccer in the UK; Football Fandom and Everyday Life
- The Media Representation of Football and Female FansFemale Fans' Media Consumption; The Role of Female Sexual Attraction in Soccer Fandom; Conclusion: Institutionalized Sexism and the Dilemma of Negotiating Fan Identity; Notes; Part Five Soccer and Global Politics; 9 The Politics of Soccer in Contemporary Ghanaian Art; Rise of the Black Stars; Godfried Donkor, Football and the Politics of Icons; George Afedzi Hughes, Soccer, and Postcolonial Fetishism; Owusu-Ankomah, Adinkra, and the Global Game; Marketing Black Stars: Football as Patron; Notes