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This is the first book to explore the full significance of sport fans and fandom from an international and interdisciplinary perspective, across different sports, communities and levels of engagement. It gives a comprehensive overview of the undeniable economic and cultural influence of sport industries for which fans are the driving force. The book examines different theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of fans, including typologies of fandom, and presents cutting-edge discussion across broad thematic areas such as performance and identity, the business of fandom, and fandom and media. It considers the experiences of diverse and marginalised fan groups, with an emphasis on intersectional analysis, and shines new light on key contemporary themes such as fan activism, violence and deviance, mobility and migration, and the transformative effects of digital and social media. This volume includes chapters by many of the leading scholars responsible for having laid the foundation for sport fan research as well as early-career scholars who examine the newest developments in media technologies, legalized betting, gaming, and fantasy sports. Including perspectives from disciplines such as philosophy, sociology, psychology, management, economics, and media studies, this book is essential reading for anybody interested in the study of sport and wider society or fans and subcultures more broadly

Cheerleading --- Mass media and sports --- Sports spectators

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This book argues that sport is essential to the social health of any society. Participation in the sport fan experience is very meaningful for a significant portion of the membership of any society. This volume argues that sports fan violence, particularly celebrating riots after championship play, disturbs and harms one of the key positive aspects of sports.

Sports spectators --- Violence in sports --- Sports spectators -- North America. --- Sports spectators. --- Violence in sports -- North America. --- Violence in sports. --- Social Sciences --- Recreation & Sports --- Spectators, Sports --- Sports --- Sports fans --- Sports violence --- Spectators --- Violence --- Audiences --- Fans (Persons) --- North America. --- USA. --- Turtle Island

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De positie van de toeschouwer is binnen het academische discours telkens weer anders geconcipieerd. Vergeleken met andere aspecten van het theaterwezen is het publiek grotendeels over het hoofd gezien binnen de theaterwetenschappen. Daar is pas recentelijk verandering in gebracht. Deze verzameling essays werpt een licht op hedendaagse ontwikkelingen binnen de filosofie, theater en performance studies met betrekking tot de positie van de toeschouwer.

Arts du spectacle --- Performing arts --- Podiumkunsten --- Theatrical science --- Spectators. --- Audiences. --- Communication --- Management

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“Hautsch's book is a game-changer: her central idea of "critical closeness" ("a mode of reading and response that is deeply emotional, embodied, and communal") unites many previous strands of fan studies and, in its clear opposition to (male, white) literary-critical ideas of "critical distance," opens up new ways not only to think about fan works but about art in general. Drawing on cognitive psychology and performance studies, Mind, Body, and Emotion in the Reception and Creation Practices of Fan Communities unites two historically different theories of fanworks: one which sees them as a site of emotion and community, and one which sees them as critical responses to media culture. Hautsch undoes these facile oppositions and puts thinking back into the body, connecting fandom's emotional and analytical responses.” —Francesca Coppa, Professor of English and Film Studies, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA, USA This book argues that fans’ creative works form a cognitive system; fanfic, fanvids, and gifs are not simply evidence of thinking, but acts of thinking. Drawing on work in cognitive linguistics, neuroscience, cognitive philosophy, and psychology—particularly focused on 4-E cognition, which rejects Cartesian dualism–this project demonstrates that cognition is an embodied, emotional, and distributed act that emerges from fans’ interactions with media texts, technological interfaces, and fan collectives. This mode of textual engagement is deeply physical, emotional, and social and is enacted through fanworks. By developing a theory of critical closeness, this book proposes a methodology for fruitfully putting cognitive science in conversation with fan studies. Jessica Hautsch is an assistant professor in the Humanities Department at New York Institute of Technology. She earned her PhD from Stony Brook University, where she also taught as a lecturer with the Program in Writing and Rhetoric. Her work offers a phenomenological interrogation of fan communities, exploring how the cognitive humanities, performance studies, and fandom intersect. She is an avid fan of Buffy, Game of Thrones, D&D, and emo.

Audiences. --- Fan and Audience Studies. --- Audiences, Communication --- Communication audiences --- Communication --- Spectators --- Social aspects

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Sport in East Germany is commonly associated with the systematic doping that helped to make the country an Olympic superpower. Football played little part in this controversial story. Yet, as a hugely popular activity that was deeply entwined in the social fabric, it exerted an influence that few institutions or pursuits could match. The People's Game examines the history of football from the interrelated perspectives of star players, fans, and ordinary citizens who played for fun. Using archival sources and interviews, it reveals football's fluid role in preserving and challenging communist hegemony. By repeatedly emphasising that GDR football was part of an international story, for example, through analysis of the 1974 World Cup finals, Alan McDougall shows how sport transcended the Iron Curtain. Through a study of the mass protests against the Stasi team, BFC, during the 1980s, he reveals football's role in foreshadowing the downfall of communism.

Soccer --- Soccer teams --- Soccer fans --- Sports and state. --- Sports --- Sports policy --- State and sports --- Association football --- English football --- European football --- Football (Soccer) --- Football --- Soccer spectators --- Sports spectators --- Soccer clubs --- Sports teams --- History. --- Social aspects --- Political aspects --- Government policy --- Fans --- Clubs