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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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NASCAR, Sturgis, and the New Economy of Spectacle maps the structure of economies of spectacle in stock car racing and large displacement motorcycle rallying. The book traces the historical development of economic spectacles and models the structural components and moving parts that sustain them. Economies of spectatorship emerge when activities and legends in the cultural commons are privatized or enclosed as immaterial property. Once privatized, a spectacular diegesis supports a triple-circuit of profit: spectatorship markets (payments to see), sponsorship markets (payments to be seen) and trophy markets (payments to be seen enjoying). Vivid illustrations of legendary action in NASCAR and carnivalesque displays at Sturgis reveal how spectator events function as intensive sites of profit-making in contemporary capitalism.

Motorsports --- Sports spectators --- Sports facilities --- Sports --- Economic aspects

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This book weaves together a rich tapestry on football fandom in Zimbabwe. Based on empirical research focusing on the different dimensions of fan practices and experiences, the book is the result of multiple fieldwork processes with fans in Zimbabwe spanning a period of eight years including desk research, interviews, observation, focus group discussions and netnography. It demonstrates the nexus between social identities and supporting a sports team, highlighting that there are deeper underlying meanings and assumptions to one's support of a sporting team. Manase Chiweshe highlights the various nuances of supporting football clubs. This book provides an alternative way to understanding communities and how sport can be viewed as a serious lens into societal organisations. It offers important insights into how Zimbabweans are also engaged in leisure activities and that play is also part of their life worlds. Given the major focus on poverty, disease and conflict, African stories of intimate play and enjoyment tend to be sidelined. Soccer has the power to bring together or divide communities. In many an African context, just as in Zimbabwe, everyday ethnic and religious rivalries are played out through football matches. It is thus important to capture this space and use football as a way to heal historic and deep-seated conflicts.

Soccer fans --- Soccer --- Association football --- English football --- European football --- Football (Soccer) --- Football --- Soccer spectators --- Sports spectators --- Social aspects --- Fans

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This book is a study of the contemporary audiences for quality period films, and their responses to these films, with reference to the critical debate which constructs many of these films as 'heritage films'.

Audiences --- Motion pictures --- Audiences, Communication --- Communication audiences --- Communication --- Spectators --- History. --- Social aspects --- Film --- United Kingdom

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Wenn frühneuzeitliche Höfe, wie von Zeitgenossen immer wieder behauptet, nach Art einer Bühne funktionieren, dann liegt es nahe, höfisches Leben nach Praktiken des Sehens und Gesehen-Werdens, der Beobachtung, der Überwachung, des Zuschauens zu befragen. Während das höfische lch durch Prozesse formierenden Sehens entsteht, kann auch der Hof selbst, als Ort der Macht, als Produkt des koniglichen Blicks beschrieben werden. Der Band widmet sich den visuellen Praktiken an frühneuzeitlichen Höfen und untersucht die Formen und Funktionen sowie die Produktivität des Zuschauerblicks am elisabethanische

Spectators --- Persons --- Audiences --- History --- Elizabeth --- Elisabeth --- Relations with courts and courtiers. --- Great Britain --- Court and courtiers