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Sports TV

Sports TV

Paperback

Series: Routledge Television Guidebooks

TelevisionSports GeneralGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0415722942
ISBN13: 9780415722940
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Mar 25 2021
Pages: 196
Weight: 0.46
Height: 0.44 Width: 5.06 Depth: 7.81
Language: English

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.

Victoria E. Johnson discusses a range of examples, from textual analysis of programs such as Monday Night Football and Being Serena to examination of television rights details, to sports TV's technological innovations and engagement of critical political debates. Johnson examines sports TV from its introduction to the ESPN+ era. She proposes that sports, as seen on TV in all of its iterations, is the central cultural forum for working through questions of community ideals, struggles over national and regional mythologies, and questions of representative citizenship.

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