How Postmodernism Explains Football and Football Explains Postmodernism: The Billy Clyde Conundrum

American football and postmodernist theory are both objects of popular and scholarly interest that reveal remarkable sociological insights. Analysis of media-driven commercial football documents how narratives of sportsmanship/brutality, heroism/antiheroism, athleticism/self-indulgence, honor/chicanery, and chivalry/sexism compete and thrive.

Author: Robert Kerr
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
Published: 08/20/2015
Pages: 143
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9781137555885

About the Author

Robert Kerr is Edith Kinney Gaylord Presidential Professor at Gaylord College, University of Oklahoma, USA.