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100 1 _aBruce, Toni,
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aTerra Ludus :
_bA Novel about Media, Gender and Sport /
_cToni Bruce.
264 1 _aLeiden,
_aBoston :
_bBrill | Sense,
_c2016.
300 _a1 online resource.
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_2rdacarrier
490 0 _aSocial Fictions Series;
_vv. 21
490 0 _aEducational Research E-Books Online, Collection 2005-2017, ISBN: 9789004394001
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 0 _aPreliminary Material -- End of an Era -- Real Life? -- Friends -- Speaking Out -- Vid World -- The Meeting -- Back to Normality? -- Eat Shit and Die -- Threat -- Getting Ready -- Back on the Court -- Training -- The Announcement -- PR -- Warning -- Authenticity -- Downtime -- More Support -- Reactions -- No Rest for the Wicked -- Terra Australia -- Back to Terra Ludus -- The Game -- Aftermath -- Travelling -- Down the Runway -- Change -- Going Home -- Coming Back -- Recovery? -- It’s All Alright -- The Final -- Suggested Classroom and Book Club Use -- About the Author.
506 _aAvailable to subscribing member institutions only.
520 _aSet in the near future, Terra Ludus follows a group of friends as their lives are turned upside down by the downstream effects of the actions of the protagonist, Daniela Bartoli. Five years after the professional International Women’s Basketball League is unceremoniously dumped by its parent men’s organization, Daniela is working in Los Angeles as a freelance journalist and playing regular weekend pick-up games with her friends Mike, Constantin, Dominic and Simeon. Her relatively simple life changes almost overnight after her vlog, challenging a powerful media corporation to step up and broadcast women’s basketball, goes viral. The publicity sets off a chain reaction that brings the sport back into international prominence and sucks Daniela into a vortex of media and public visibility that leads her to question what is really important. In an imagined context where all professional sport takes place in a single country—something like a permanent Olympic Games—we follow a cast of characters with very different viewpoints on a roller-coaster, year-long, journey as they adjust to the new women’s league. Although fictional, Terra Ludus is grounded in decades of researching, theorizing, teaching and writing about women’s sport and media representation. Terra Ludus can be read entirely for pleasure or used as supplemental reading in courses in sport, media, gender, communication, journalism, sociology, creative writing, performance, physical education and cultural studies.
650 0 _aMass media and sports.
650 0 _aSex discrimination in sports.
650 0 _aSports journalism.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_tTerra Ludus: A Novel about Media, Gender and Sport
_dLeiden, Boston : Brill | Sense, 2016,
_z9789463007696
830 0 _aSocial Fictions Series
_v21.
830 0 _aEducational Research E-Books Online, Collection 2005-2017, ISBN: 9789004394001.
856 4 _zDOI:
_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-770-2
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