"Players All is a stunning accomplishment, an agenda-setting work; it opens the space for a bold, and innovative, critical, performance-based discourse on mass sport, sport as entertainment, and spectatorship in the global, postmodern society." --Norman K. Denzin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign In a book that is both scholarly and engagingly personal, Robert E. Rinehart takes us into the world of contemporary sport performances, from the Olympic Games to "The eXtreme Games," the Super Bowl to "The American Gladiators." He introduces us to sports tourism and the highly commercialized world of global sport. Rinehart analyzes the emergence of such "sports" as paint ball (and its associations with the Vietnam War) and indoor rock climbing (and its links to environmentalism and self-mastery). He shows how sports have become theatrical events and paints a revealing portrait of the new postmodern culture of sports.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0253212235
ISBN13:9780253212238
Release Date:December 1998
Publisher:Indiana University Press
Length:208 Pages
Weight:0.75 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"
Customer Reviews
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Engaging -- Breaks New Ground ...
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 20 years ago
A truly engaging read! Well researched & well written. The author breaks new ground by examining the many facets of sport from a postmodern perspective in ways I have not seen before. This is a book definitely worth reading (especially chapter seven) ... Highly recommended!!
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