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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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Cohan, Noah (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2019]
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.