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Games Without Frontiers
Joe Kennedy
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Description for Games Without Frontiers
Paperback. Football, we're told frequently, is in a state of crisis. A microcosm of late capitalism's free-for-all, it has become almost dystopian in its commodification, and its working-class constituency have become thoroughly alienated from the sport they grew up believing was a birthright. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: WSJA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 127 x 196 x 18. Weight in Grams: 130.
Football, we're told frequently, is in a state of crisis. A microcosm of late capitalism's free-for-all, it has become almost dystopian in its commodification, and its working-class constituency have become thoroughly alienated from the sport they grew up believing was a birthright. Games Without Frontiers seeks to interrogate this perspective by forcing us to think about what we mean when we say 'football'. Along the way, it skewers media cliches about footballers and fans, considers the sport's implications for radical politics and aesthetics, and situates the 'working-man's game' in relation to twenty-first century discussions of political authenticity. Written half as ... Read more
Football, we're told frequently, is in a state of crisis. A microcosm of late capitalism's free-for-all, it has become almost dystopian in its commodification, and its working-class constituency have become thoroughly alienated from the sport they grew up believing was a birthright. Games Without Frontiers seeks to interrogate this perspective by forcing us to think about what we mean when we say 'football'. Along the way, it skewers media cliches about footballers and fans, considers the sport's implications for radical politics and aesthetics, and situates the 'working-man's game' in relation to twenty-first century discussions of political authenticity. Written half as ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Repeater
Condition
New
Number of Pages
300
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781910924242
SKU
9781910924242
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Ref
99-1
About Joe Kennedy
Joe Kennedy is from the north-east of England and teaches English and Cultural Studies on the University ofGothenburg's programme at the University of Sussex. His academic work focuses on the postwar continuations and mutations of modernism in Britain, and on critical theory. Hewrites on literature, music, visual art, sport and politics for a wide range of publications.
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