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Goal! : A cultural and social history of modern football
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ISBN: 0813227283 9780813227283 9780813227276 0813227275 Year: 2015 Publisher: Washington Catholic University of America Press

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Goal! covers the history of the beautiful game from its origins in English public schools in the early 19th century to its current role as a crucial element of a globalized entertainment industry. The authors explain how football transformed from a sport at elite boarding schools in England to become a pastime popular with the working classes, enabling factories such as the Thames Iron Works and the Woolwich Arsenal to give birth to the teams that would become the Premier League mainstays known as West Ham United and Arsenal. They also explore how the age of amateur soccer ended and, with the advent of professionalism, how football became a sport dominated by big clubs with big money and with an international audience.


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Playing to win : sports, video games, and the culture of play
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ISBN: 0253015057 9780253014993 9780253015020 9780253015051 0253015022 0253014999 Year: 2015 Publisher: Bloomington : Indiana University Press,

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In this era of big media franchises, sports branding has crossed platforms, so that the sport, its television broadcast, and its replication in an electronic game are packaged and promoted as part of the same fan experience. Editors Robert Alan Brookey and Thomas P. Oates trace this development back to the unexpected success of Atari's Pong in the 1970's, which provoked a flood of sport simulation games that have had an impact on every sector of the electronic game market. From golf to football, basketball to step aerobics, electronic sports games are as familiar in the American household as the televised sporting events they simulate. This book explores the points of convergence at which gaming and sports culture merge.


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American literature, lynching, and the spectator in the crowd : spectacular violence
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ISBN: 1498506364 9781498506366 9781498506359 1498506356 1498506372 Year: 2015 Publisher: Lanham [Maryland] : Lexington Books,

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American Literature, Lynching, and the Spectator in the Crowd: Spectacular Violence examines spectatorship in texts by Theodore Dreiser, Miriam Michelson, Irvin S. Cobb, and Paul Laurence Dunbar. As a figure who is simultaneously within and outside the crowd, the spectator (often in the form of a reporter character) is in a unique position to express the fractures between the individual and the collective in American society, seen most vividly in fictional lynch mob scenes in American literature at the turn of the twentieth century.


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The philosophy of argument and audience reception
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ISBN: 1316371832 1316375838 1316376834 1316377830 1316378837 1107498449 1316374831 1316181642 1107101115 1316373835 1316365832 Year: 2015 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Recent work in argumentation theory has emphasized the nature of arguers and arguments along with various theoretical perspectives. Less attention has been given to the third feature of any argumentative situation - the audience. This book fills that gap by studying audience reception to argumentation and the problems that come to light as a result of this shift in focus. Christopher W. Tindale advances the tacit theories of several earlier thinkers by addressing the central problems connected with audience considerations in argumentation, problems that earlier philosophical theories overlook or inadequately accommodate. The main tools employed in exploring the central issues are drawn from contemporary philosophical research on meaning, testimony, emotion and agency. These are then combined with some of the major insights of recent rhetorical work in argumentation to advance our understanding of audiences and suggest avenues for further research.


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Études sur le théâtre et les arts de la scène
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ISSN: 22733884 ISBN: 9782406086055 9782406086048 2406086046 Year: 2015 Volume: 14 Publisher: Paris Classiques Garnier

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Par l'examen des théories et des pratiques propres aux arts vivants et par l'analyse de leur développement, cette collection a pour vocation de faire le point sur les différentes manières d'envisager l'histoire et l'esthétique du spectacle vivant dans le passé comme dans notre période contemporaine.


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The Montreal Canadiens
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ISBN: 1442617497 9781442617490 9781442648692 1442648694 9781442626331 144262633X 1442617500 Year: 2015 Publisher: Toronto Buffalo London

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One of the most famous and certainly most successful professional hockey teams of all time, the Montreal Canadiens are practically a national institution in Quebec society. More than any other team, the Habs play an important role in the identity, economy, and culture of their home town and province.The essays in The Montreal Canadiens: Rethinking a Legend offer a panoramic view of this influence. What were the connections between the Maurice Richard Riot of 1955 and Quebec’s Quiet Revolution? Can we say that loyalty to the team constitutes a religion for its fans? How is corporatization affecting how Quebecers connect with their beloved team? Featuring a wide range of writing on Le Grand Club and its social significance, the book offers a fresh and fascinating perspective on one of Canada’s greatest sports teams.

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