We Average Unbeautiful Watchers : Fan Narratives and the Reading of American Sports /
"Sports fandom--often more than religious, political, or regional affiliation--determines how millions of Americans define themselves. In We Average Unbeautiful Watchers, Noah Cohan examines contemporary sports culture to show how mass-mediated athletics are in fact richly textured narrative en...
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Lincoln :
University of Nebraska Press,
[2019]
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Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- So we fabricate : baseball and the unfriendly confines of history
- It was my fate, my destiny, my end, to be a fan : football, mental illness, and the autobiographical novel
- Race in the basketball memoir : fan identity and the eros of "a Black man's game"
- It's been a problem with me and women : failed masculinities in depictions of sports fans on film
- Reimagined communities : web-mediated fandom and new narrative possibilities for sport.