1st Edition
Fields in Vision Television Sport and Cultural Transformation
By Garry Whannel
Copyright 1992
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
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Fields in Vision offers a comprehensive and analytical study of the international phenomenon of television sports coverage. Garry Whannel considers the historical development of sport on television, the growth of sponsorship and the way that television and sponsorship have re-shaped sport in the context of the enterprise culture. Drawing on archival research, Whannel first charts the... Read more
Chapter 1 Sport, television and culture; Part I Institutions, practices and economic relations; Chapter 2 National events and the authority of the BBC; Chapter 3 Production practices and professional ideologies; Chapter 4 BBC v. ITV competition; Chapter 5 Made for television; Part 2 Sport on television; Chapter 6 Analysing television sport; Chapter 7 Assemblage and framing; Chapter 8 Stars, narratives and ideologies; Part 3 Cultural transformations; Chapter 9 The case of athletics; Chapter 10 The road to globalisation; Chapter 11 Field of representations; Chapter 12 Audiences and pleasures; Chapter 13 Final thoughts;
Biography
Garry Whannel is a Senior Lecturer in Sports Studies at Roehampton Institute.
