Reading Sport
Author | : Susan Birrell |
Publisher | : UPNE |
Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781555534301 |
A look at power relations in sports along the axes of gender, race, class, and sexuality.
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Author | : Susan Birrell |
Publisher | : UPNE |
Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781555534301 |
A look at power relations in sports along the axes of gender, race, class, and sexuality.
Author | : Michael Oriard |
Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 2000-11-09 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 0807866962 |
Is football an athletic contest or a social event? Is it a game of skill, a test of manhood, or merely an organized brawl? Michael Oriard, a former professional player, asks these and other intriguing questions in Reading Football, the first contemporary book about football's formative years. American football began in the 1870s as a game to be played, not watched. Within a brief ten years, it had become a great public spectacle with an immense following, a phenomenon caused primarily by the voluminous commentary about the game conducted in popular newspapers and magazines. Oriard shows how this constant narrative in football's early years developed many different stories about what the game meant: football as pastime, as the sport of gentlemen, as a science, as a game of rules and their infringements. He shows how football became a series of cultural stories about power, luck, strategy, and deception. These different interpretations have been magnified by football's current omnipresence on television. According to Oriard, televised football now plays a cultural role of enormous importance for men, yet within the field of cultural studies the influence of football has been ignored until now. From the book: "A receiver sprints down the sideline, fast and graceful, then breaks toward the middle of the field where a safety waits for him. From forty yards upfield the quarterback releases the ball; it spirals in an elegant arc toward the goalposts as the receiver now for the first time looks back to pick up its flight. The pass is a little high; the receiver leaps, stretches, grasps the ball--barely, fingers clutching--at the very moment that the safety drives a helmet into his unprotected ribs. The force of the collision flings the receiver backward, slamming him to the turf. . . . This familiar tableau, this exemplary moment in a football game, epitomizes the appeal of the sport: the dramatic confrontation of artistry with violence, both equally necessary."
Author | : |
Publisher | : Teacher Created Materials |
Total Pages | : 34 |
Release | : 2016-12-15 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1425831389 |
Learn about all kinds of sports and discover what sport is right for you with this colorful, engaging title! This 6-Pack includes six copies of this Level Q title and a lesson plan that specifically supports Guided Reading instruction.
Author | : W. Awdry |
Publisher | : Random House Books for Young Readers |
Total Pages | : 26 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 110194031X |
Thomas and his friends compete at the Great Railway Show race.
Author | : P.D. Eastman |
Publisher | : Random House Books for Young Readers |
Total Pages | : 34 |
Release | : 2015-01-06 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0553508431 |
P. D. Eastman’s classic character Aaron the Alligator makes his early-reader debut! Aaron can get into trouble doing just about anything—playing ball, planting seeds . . . even walking! Kids will giggle along as they tackle the simple words and sentences all on their own. Aaron is a star of The Cat in the Hat Beginner Book Dictionary and a long-out-of-print series called Everything Happens to Aaron. Step 1 Readers feature big type and easy words for children who know the alphabet and are eager to begin reading. Rhyme and rhythmic text paired with picture clues help children decode the story.
Author | : P.D. Eastman |
Publisher | : Random House Books for Young Readers |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 2015-01-06 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0553534599 |
P. D. Eastman’s classic character Aaron the Alligator makes his early-reader debut! Aaron can get into trouble doing just about anything—playing ball, planting seeds . . . even walking! Kids will giggle along as they tackle the simple words and sentences all on their own. Aaron is a star of The Cat in the Hat Beginner Book Dictionary and a long-out-of-print series called Everything Happens to Aaron. Step 1 Readers feature big type and easy words for children who know the alphabet and are eager to begin reading. Rhyme and rhythmic text paired with picture clues help children decode the story. This Read & Listen edition contains audio narration.
Author | : Richard Cox |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2014-02-04 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 1135287422 |
Volume two of a bibliography documenting all that has been written in the English language on the history of sport and physical education in Britain. It lists all secondary source material including reference works, in a classified order to meet the needs of the sports historian.
Author | : Jason Holt |
Publisher | : Broadview Press |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 2013-11-22 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1554811465 |
Unlike hefty anthologies and skinny monographs, this volume offers both concision and breadth: a mesomorphic text. The division of the book into two parts, the first on the nature of sport, the second on rules and values, is a natural one, reaching out from a grasp of what sport is toward an understanding of what it ought to be. In addition to the carefully selected readings, the book includes discussion questions and ideas for further inquiry, laying out the depth of debate in this rapidly growing field. Ultimately, readers will glean a richer understanding of what sport is and why it matters, so much and in so many ways, to so many people.
Author | : C. E. Morgan |
Publisher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Total Pages | : 561 |
Release | : 2016-05-03 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0374715173 |
A Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize Winner of the Kirkus Prize for Fiction • A Recipient of the Windham-Campbell Prize for Fiction • A Finalist for the James Tait Black Prize for Fiction • A Finalist for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction • A Finalist for the Rathbones Folio Prize • Longlisted for an Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence • One of New York Times Book Review 100 Notable Book Named a Best Book of the Year by Entertainment Weekly • GQ • The New York Times (Selected by Dwight Garner) • NPR • The Wall Street Journal • San Francisco Chronicle • Refinery29 • Booklist • Kirkus Reviews • Commonweal Magazine "In its poetic splendor and moral seriousness, The Sport of Kings bears the traces of Faulkner, Morrison, and McCarthy. . . . It is a contemporary masterpiece."—San Francisco Chronicle Hailed by The New Yorker for its “remarkable achievements,” The Sport of Kings is an American tale centered on a horse and two families: one white, a Southern dynasty whose forefathers were among the founders of Kentucky; the other African-American, the descendants of their slaves. It is a dauntless narrative that stretches from the fields of the Virginia piedmont to the abundant pastures of the Bluegrass, and across the dark waters of the Ohio River; from the final shots of the Revolutionary War to the resounding clang of the starting bell at Churchill Downs. As C. E. Morgan unspools a fabric of shared histories, past and present converge in a Thoroughbred named Hellsmouth, heir to Secretariat and a contender for the Triple Crown. Newly confronted with one another in the quest for victory, the two families must face the consequences of their ambitions, as each is driven---and haunted---by the same, enduring question: How far away from your father can you run? A sweeping narrative of wealth and poverty, racism and rage, The Sport of Kings is an unflinching portrait of lives cast in the shadow of slavery and a moral epic for our time.
Author | : Eric Bain-Selbo |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 185 |
Release | : 2016-09-08 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1472506987 |
Readers are introduced to a range of theoretical and methodological approaches used to understand religion – including sociology, philosophy, psychology, and anthropology – and how they can be used to understand sport as a religious phenomenon. Topics include the formation of powerful communities among fans and the religious experience of the fan, myth, symbols and rituals and the sacrality of sport, and sport and secularization. Case studies are taken from around the world and include the Olympics (ancient and modern), football in the UK, the All Blacks and New Zealand national identity, college football in the American South, and gymnastics. Ideal for classroom use, Understanding Sport as a Religious Phenomenon illuminates the nature of religion through sports phenomena and is a much-needed contribution to the field of religion and popular culture.