Understanding Sports Culture ( 1 )

Publication series :1

Author: Schirato   Tony  

Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd‎

Publication year: 2007

E-ISBN: 9781848607460

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9781412907392

Subject: G80 Sports theory

Keyword: 体育

Language: ENG

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Understanding Sport Culture traces and analyzes the development of the modern field of sport from its ancient and medieval precursors (the festivals of Greece and Rome, and games such as folk football), through to its inception in the mid-nineteenth century as a set of activities designed to instill character and discipline in students in exclusive British public schools, up to its transformation into a global institution and popular spectacle. The narrative also focuses on and provides a detailed account of the gradual coming together of sport and the media. It explains how this relationship has accentuated sport's status as one of the most important sites in contemporary culture, while simultaneously threatening its existence.

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