TY  - BOOK
AU  - Berger,Arthur Asa
TI  - Sports Semiotics
T2  - Brill Research Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences
SN  - 9789004541351
AV  - GV706.3 
U1  - 796.01 23
PY  - 2023///
CY  - Leiden, Boston
PB  - Brill
KW  - Semiotics
KW  - Sports
KW  - Philosophy
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004541351
ER  -