[PDF.50rj] Reading Football: How the Popular Press Created an American Spectacle (Cultural Studies of the United States)

Reading Football: How the Popular Press Created an American Spectacle (Cultural Studies of the United States)

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 | #821162 in Books |  The University of North Carolina Press |  1998-08-31 | Ingredients: Example Ingredients | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.25 x.88 x6.13l,1.20 | File type: PDF | 352 pages

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Five Stars|By jim zaher|for anybody with an interest in sports or how media creates culture this is a must read|3 of 5 people found the following review helpful.| Touchdown!|By Keeneye Reviews|This book offers the reader an evaluation of the early years of football and the press' role in popularizing football for the American c|From Publishers Weekly|A former player in the National Football League and now a professor of English at Oregon State, Oriard advances the thesis that football is a cultural text, complete with metaphoric content and social context, read differently by people wh

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 foll...

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