Sports TV

This book offers an introductory guide to sports tv, its history in the United States, the genre's defining characteristics, and analysis of its critical significance for the business practices, formal properties, and social, cultural, and political meanings of the medium.

Author: Victoria E. Johnson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 03/25/2021
Pages: 196
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.46lbs
Size: 7.81h x 5.06w x 0.44d
ISBN: 9780415722940

About the Author

Victoria E. Johnson is Professor of Film and Media Studies and African American Studies at the University of California, Irvine. Her Heartland TV: Prime Time Television and the Struggle for U.S. Identity (2008) was awarded the Society for Cinema and Media Studies Katherine Singer Kovacs Book Award in 2009. She writes about the cultural history of US television by examining its popular geographic mythologies, representations of race and place, and sports media.