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Looking at the bad spectator
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ISBN: 9789735954154 973595415X Year: 2012 Publisher: Cluj-Napoca Presa Universitara Clujeana

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Sports spectators
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ISBN: 0231517092 Year: 1986 Publisher: New York : Columbia University Press,

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In his previous books Allen Guttmann has provided incisive perspectives on Avery Brundage's role in the Olympic movement and on the nature of modern sports. Now, in his latest book, the accomplished historian of sport turns his attention from the playing field to the grandstand. Sports Spectators, the first historical study of the subject from antiquity to today, is at once erudite and entertaining; comprehensive and succint.Guttmann first examines the history of sports spectators, starting with Ancient Greece and Rome. He then moves on to the Renaissance and traces three early sports -the tournament, archery, and early versions of football. The author then focuses on the emergenece of sports in post-Renaissance England, and discusses the curious spectacle of animal sports (bear- and bull-baiting and cockfighting), as well as the first appearance of combat sports such as sword fighting, stick fighting, and boxing. The book concludes its historical view by exploring contemporary baseball, football, rowing, tennis, and golf.From his chronological narrative, Guttmann shifts to detailed analysis of the economic, sociological, and psychological aspects of sports spectatorship. Who were, and are, sports spectators? What is their gender and social class? Have they normally been participants as well as fans? What are the political functions of sports-watching? What are the social dynamics of spectatorship?Guttmann provides fresh insights which will be useful to scholars and fascinating to everyone. Sports Spectators also looks at the dramatic transformations radio and television have made, and offers an incisive critique of today's sports-related violence, including the increasingly frequent incidences of spectator hooliganism. How violent (or peaceful) have spectators traditionally been? Has spectator violence increased or decreased?You needn't be a season ticket-holder to enjoy Sports Spectators. Allen Guttmann makes the history of fandom come alive for any reader interested in Western culture and what forms of entertainment reveal about us, as well as those concerned with the recent growth of spectator violence.


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Psychoanalytic perspectives on intense involvement in sports
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ISBN: 0367542382 9780367542382 Year: 2021 Publisher: London: Routledge,

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"Of sport. It highlights the importance of sports for different individuals and how the function and use of sports can be brought into the consulting room. Passionate interest in actively engaging in sports is a universal phenomenon. It is striking that this aspect of human life, prior to this volume, has received little attention in the literature of psychoanalysis. This edited volume is comprised largely of psychoanalysts who are themselves avidly involved with sports. It is suggested that intense involvement in sports prioritizes commitment and active engagement over passivity and that such involvement provides an emotionally tinged distraction from the various misfortunes of life. Indeed, the ups and downs in mood related to athletic victory or defeat often supplant, temporarily, matters in life that may be more personally urgent. Engaging in sports or rooting for teams provides a feeling of community and a sense of identification with like-minded others, even among those who are part of other communities and have sufficient communal identifications. This book offers a better psychoanalytic understanding of sports to help us discover more about ourselves, our patients, and our culture, and will be of great interest to psychotherapists and psychoanalysts, or anyone with an interest in sport and its link to psychoanalysis and mental health"--

Growing Up with Baseball : How We Loved and Played the Game
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ISBN: 1280423692 9786610423699 080320423X 9780803204232 9781280423697 6610423695 0803229755 9780803229754 Year: 2004 Publisher: Lincoln : Baltimore, Md. : University of Nebraska Press, Project MUSE,

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Routledge handbook of sport fans and fandom
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ISBN: 1032224355 9780367358310 9781032224350 036735831X 9780429342189 9781000552430 0429342187 9781000552461 1000552462 1000552438 Year: 2022 Publisher: London Routledge

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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


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Spectator violence in stadiums
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Year: 2008 Publisher: Washington, DC : U.S. Dept. of Justice, Office of Community Oriented Policing Services,

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Staging spectators in immersive performances : commit yourself!
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ISBN: 9780367187965 9780429198274 9780367729295 0429198272 9780429582318 0429582315 9780429584213 0429584210 9780429580093 0429580096 0367187965 Year: 2020 Publisher: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : copyright 2019 Routledge,

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"At present, we are witnessing a significant transformation of established forms of spectatorship in theatre, performance art and beyond. In particular, immersive and participatory forms of theatre allow audiences and performers to interact in a shared performance space. Staging Spectators in Immersive Performances discusses forms and concepts of contemporary spectatorship and explores various modes of audience participation in theory as well as in practice. The volume also reflects on what new terms and methods must be developed in order to address the theoretical challenges of contemporary immersive performances. Split into three parts, Staging Spectators in Immersive Performances respectively focuses on various strategies for mobilising the audience; methodological questions for research on being a spectator in immersive and participatory forms of theatre; and thematising new modes of partaking and ways of spectating in contemporary art. Poignantly capturing experiences that can be viewed as manifestations of affective relationality in the strongest possible sense, this volume will appeal to students and researchers interested in fields such as Theatre and Performance Studies, Media Studies and Philosophy"--


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Football fans and social spacing : power and control in a modernising landscape
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ISBN: 3030745325 3030745317 Year: 2021 Publisher: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan,

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Sports fan violence in North America
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ISBN: 9780742539792 0742539792 9780742539808 0742539806 1299785719 1461642914 9781461642916 Year: 2007 Publisher: Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.,

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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.


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Tribunes de presse : études sur la construction journalistique du sport
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ISBN: 9782872094431 2872094431 Year: 1996 Publisher: Louvain-la-Neuve: Academia,

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