King Football Sport and Spectacle in the Golden Age of Radio and Newsreels, Movies and Magazines, the Weekly and the Daily Press

Name: King Football Sport and Spectacle in the Golden Age of Radio and Newsreels, Movies and Magazines, the Weekly and the Daily Press
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ISBN: 9780807855454

ISBN-10: 0807855456

ISBN-13: 9780807855454

Edition: 2004

Authors: Michael Oriard

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This landmark work explores the vibrant world of football from the 1920s through the 1950s, a period in which the game became deeply embedded in American life. Though millions experienced the thrills of college and professional football firsthand during these years, many more encountered the game through their daily newspapers or the weeklySaturday Evening Post, on radio broadcasts, and in the newsreels and feature films shown at their local movie theaters. Asking what football meant to these millions who followed it either casually or passionately, Michael Oriard reconstructs a media-created world of football and explores its deep entanglements with a modernizing American society.…

Book details

List price: $47.50
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 2/28/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 512
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 1.13" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English



Preface


Introduction



In the Kingdom of Football



Reading, Watching, and Listening to Football



Local Football



Who Cares about Reform?



Players' or Coaches' - Whose Game Is It?



Gridiron, U.S.A.



Sanctioning Savagery



What We Think About When We Think About Football



Class?



Ethnicity



Race



Masculinity


Epilogue: Into the Age of Television



Football Films, 1920-1960



Football Covers on the Saturday Evening Post and Collier's, 1920-1960



Football Fiction in the Saturday Evening Post and Collier's, 1920-1960


Notes


Bibliography


Index