1st Edition
Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk Flags, Football, and the NFL’s “Foxy” Patriotism Problem
By Lisa Ferguson
Copyright 2024
84 Pages
by
Routledge
84 Pages
by
Routledge
84 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book examines how the game of football and militarism have historically overlapped due to their shared celebration of strength, might, and besting a clear and definitive foe. Nevertheless, since September 11, a variety of staged patriotic vignettes dominated most NFL broadcasts, giving the once easy and unforced union a stilted feel. That the War on Terror became a fixture of modern- day... Read more
Preface
- Hut Hut, Ten Hut: A Bromance Blossoms
- They “Misunderestimated” Him: George W. Bush, the Mastermind
- “Honey, We Got a Big (Sexy and Patriotic) Storm Comin’”
- Does This Trauma Make Me Look Sexy? When PTSD Fits as Snug as Skintight Fatigues
- Debbie Does Dallas Cheerleaders Serious Damage
- Guns, Pom-Poms—It’s All the Same as Long as You Slay
- “Get in, Loser, We’re Going to the Danger Zone”
Conclusion: “Help us, Tom Cruise!”: The NFL Drafts Maverick
Index
Biography
Lisa Ferguson received her Ph.D. at the University of Alabama and taught for several years at Polk State College and the University of Kentucky before moving with her husband and children to Tennessee. She writes about the treatment of gender in war fiction, and her articles have appeared in the Journal of Research in Gender Studies, the Journal of War and Culture Studies, and War, Literature, & the Arts. She’s also a former cheerleader, who married a former soldier.
