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Understanding sports culture /

The French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu has written that contemporary sport is 'born of truly popular games' and returns to them 'in the form of spectacles produced for the people'. Another well-known French intellectual, the former Manchester United football star Eric Cantona, ha...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Schirato, Tony
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Los Angeles ; London : Sage Publications, Ã2007.
Collection:Understanding contemporary culture.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Cover; Acknowledgements; Contents; 1 Introduction: Playing Sport; 2 Theories of Play, Games and Sport; 3 Intimations of Sport; 4 The Field of Sport; 5 Global Sport; 6 Sport, the Media and Spectatorship; 7 From Sport to Spectacle; 8 Contemporary Sport; Bibliography; Index.