Sports Semiotics

Arthur Asa Berger (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

70 Seiten

2023
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-54134-4 (ISBN)

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This book uses semiotic theory (and, secondarily, other theories) to explain the social, economic, cultural and psychological significance of sports--primarily baseball and football in America, and, by implication, other sports.

Sports 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.

Arthur Asa Berger, Ph.D. (1965), University of Minnesota, is Professor Emeritus of Broadcast and Electronic Communication Arts at San Francisco State University. He is the author of more than 150 articles and 90 books on semiotics, popular culture, media analysis, tourism and humor.

Contents

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

Erscheinungsdatum	03.04.2023
Reihe/Serie	Brill Research Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences / Brill Research Perspectives in Popular Culture
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	147 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
ISBN-10	90-04-54134-9 / 9004541349
ISBN-13	978-90-04-54134-4 / 9789004541344
Zustand	Neuware