A Game of Two Halves : Football Fandom, Television and Globalisation.
Material type: TextSeries: Comedia SerPublisher: London : Routledge, 2003Copyright date: ©2003Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (225 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780203561393Subject(s): Television and sportsGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: A Game of Two Halves : Football Fandom, Television and GlobalisationDDC classification: 306.483 LOC classification: GV943.9.S6Online resources: Click to ViewBook Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents.
Professional football is one of the most popular television 'genres' worldwide, attracting the support of millions of fans, and the sponsorship of powerful companies. In A Game of Two Halves, Sandvoss considers football's relationship with television, its links with transnational capitalism, and the importance of football fandom in forming social and cultural identities around the globe. He presents the phenomenon of football as a reflection postmodern culture and globalization.Through a series of case studies, based in ethnographic audience research, Sandvoss explores the motivations and pleasures of football fans, the intense bond formed between supporters and their clubs, the implications of football consumption on political discourse and citizenship, football as a factor of cultural globalisation, and the pivotal role of football and television in a postmodern cultural order.
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