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100 1 _aBerger, Arthur Asa,
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aSports Semiotics /
_cArthur Asa Berger.
264 1 _aLeiden ;
_aBoston :
_bBrill,
_c2023.
264 4 _c©2023
300 _a1 online resource
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aBrill Research Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences ;
_v
490 1 _aSocial Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2023
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _tContents -- 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.
520 _aSports 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.
546 _aEnglish
588 _aDescription based on print version record.
650 0 _aSemiotics.
650 0 _aSports
_xPhilosophy.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_tSports Semiotics.
_dLeiden ; Boston : Brill, 2023.
_z9789004541344
_w(DLC) 2022952392
830 0 _aBrill Research Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences ;
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830 0 _aSocial Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2023.
856 4 _zDOI:
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