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Title Sports media history : culture, technology, identity / edited by John Carvalho
Published Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021
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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 277 pages) : illustrations
Series Routledge research in sports history
Routledge research in sports history
Contents Part I. Early influences, early developments. Curiosity shop, toy department, and beyond : the development of visual baseball journalism in Frank Leslie's Illustrated newspaper -- The photo-finish as sports media -- Hawking kings of the diamond : how specialty sports magazines sold the national pastime, its stars, and its audience fables of manliness -- Joe Louis : the first black white hope -- Dizzying up the broadcast booth : the player-broadcaster in the early years of televised baseball -- Part II. Sports, media, and evolving identity issues. "Do tennis girls make good wives?" : exploring media representations of women's sport in interwar Britain -- From base paths to bylines : Jackie Robinson's prodigious career in journalism -- Major League Baseball and the development of Spanish-language radio broadcasts -- Defying race ideology in the South : print media's role in the erosion of the unwritten rules in college basketball -- Martin Luther King Jr. Day and the Super Bowl as a narrative for civil rights -- Martina Navratilova : out in the (relative) open -- Part III. The global reach of sports and media's influence. Sports journalism in wartime : a case of sports journalism in the Third Reich -- Trapped in America : how the Masanori Murakami debacle redefined U.S.-Japan baseball relations -- Argentina in the Women's World Cup Mexico 1971 : a collaborative approach to building a theoretical landmark -- For profit or for country? : the Daily Mail and the Zola Budd affair -- Part IV. A first look at emerging sports media history topics -- Labor's denial : a case study of how labor used the media and public relations to block the first NBA-ABA merger attempt -- Clyde Lear and the Learfield Sports empire -- Remembering NCAA v. Board of Regents : the Supreme Court foundation of a mediated college football cartel -- The ultimate value-added proposition : how fantasy sport evolved to accommodate the changing social needs of sports fans -- Covering terror : the New York Times's post-9/11 sports reporting
Summary "This research collection details the ongoing interaction between sports, media, and society throughout important periods in history. Chapters examine both historical events/moments and broader trends in sports, with an emphasis on the media's role"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes John Carvalho is a professor of journalism at Auburn University, USA. His academic career as a sports media historian has focused mainly on sports celebrities with strong media ties
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 30, 2020)
Subject Mass media and sports -- History
Sports -- Social aspects -- History
Minorities in mass media -- History
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies
SPORTS & RECREATION / General
SPORTS & RECREATION / History
Mass media and sports
Minorities in mass media
Sports -- Social aspects
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
Author Carvalho, John, editor
LC no. 2020018618
ISBN 9781000206531
100020653X
9780429287756
0429287755
9781000206555
1000206556
1000206572
9781000206579