276 Pages
by
Routledge
280 Pages
by
Routledge
280 Pages
by
Routledge
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Cultures and nations remember themselves with select bodily images, evocative rituals and texts. This volume illustrates how sport is used in the creation, maintenance and now global dissemination of a nation's cherished values. Carefully drawn cases of sport in North America - American baseball and football, figure skating and gymnastics, Canadian hockey and track and field, for example - show... Read more
Prologue, Stephen G. Wieting and Judy Polumbaum. Part 1 The social image in memory and representation: cultural identity, law and baseball, Sarah K. Fields; pride and prejudice - reflecting on sport heroes, national identity and crisis in Canada, Steven J. Jackson and Pam Ponic; remembering the black and gold - African Americans, sport memory and the University of Iowa, David R. McMahon. Part 2 The body in memory and representation: tobacco, health and the sports metaphor, Michelle McQuistan and Christopher Squier; drugs and numbers in the reporting of American sports, Michael A. Katovich; curling in Canada, Stephen G. Wieting and Danny Lamoureux. Part 3 The nation in celebration in global broadcasting: America's national pastime and Canadian nationalism, Sean Hayes; forcing the fairytale - narrative strategies in figure skating competition coverage, Bettina Fabos; the whole world isn't watching (but we thought they were) - the Super Bowl and United States solipsism, Christopher R. Martin and Jimmie L. Reeves; epilogue - the future of exchange between local culture and global trends, Stephen G. Wietling and Judy Polumbaum.
Biography
Stephen Wieting
