Sports Semiotics / Arthur Asa Berger.
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TextLanguage: English Series: Brill Research Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences ; . | Social Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2023Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2023Copyright date: ©2023Description: 1 online resourceContent type: - text
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- online resource
- 9789004541351
- 796.01 23
- GV706.3
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents -- List of Figures -- Abstract -- Keywords -- 1 A Primer on Semiotics -- 2 Roland Barthes on Professional Wrestling -- 3 Baseball: Threes, Fours, and Exclusions -- 4 Fenway Park -- 5 Football and the Sacred -- 6 The Semiotics of Televised Baseball -- 7 The Super Bowl -- 8 Football: Semiotics, Psyche and Society -- 9 Coda -- Acknowledgments -- Reference.
Sports Semiotics applies semiotics (and other disciplines, secondarily) to analyse the social, cultural, economic and psychological significance of sports. It includes a primer on semiotic theory, sections on the analysis of wrestling by Roland Barthes in his book Mythologies , as well as sections on football and the sacred, the Super Bowl, and the semiotics of televised baseball.
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