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- ISBN
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of North Carolina Press
ISBN-10
0807847518
ISBN-13
9780807847510
eBay Product ID (ePID)
310558
Product Key Features
Book Title
Reading Football : How the Popular Press Created an American Spectacle
Number of Pages
352 Pages
Language
English
Topic
History, Football
Publication Year
1998
Features
New Edition
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Sports & Recreation
Book Series
Cultural Studies of the United States Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
3 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
92-042840
Dewey Edition
20
Reviews
Reading Football is a playbook to understanding America. Robert Lipsyte, sports columnist for The New York Times, A well-researched, fascinating ride through football history that will be enjoyed by scholars and fans alike.-- Philadelphia Inquirer, Oriard's important book is a welcome, extremely insightful cultural history of football's early decades.-- American Historical Review, A well-researched, fascinating ride through football history that will be enjoyed by scholars and fans alike. Philadelphia Inquirer, [A] careful, fascinating study of football's emerging importance at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth.Journal of Southern History, "A well-researched, fascinating ride through football history that will be enjoyed by scholars and fans alike."-- Philadelphia Inquirer, Michael Oriard's important book is a welcome, extremely insightful cultural history of football's early decades.American Historical Review, "The starting point of this careful, fascinating study of football's emerging importance at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century is Michael Oriard's contention that football or more particularly the vast body of writing about football offers the scholar a rich and unique cultural text of the times."-- Journal of Southern History, A well-researched, fascinating ride through football history that will be enjoyed by scholars and fans alike.Philadelphia Inquirer, The starting point of this careful, fascinating study of football's emerging importance at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century is Michael Oriard's contention that football or more particularly the vast body of writing about football offers the scholar a rich and unique cultural text of the times."-- Journal of Southern History, [A] careful, fascinating study of football's emerging importance at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth. Journal of Southern History, Michael Oriard's important book is a welcome, extremely insightful cultural history of football's early decades. American Historical Review, A well-researched, fascinating ride through football history that will be enjoyed by scholars and fans alike."-- Philadelphia Inquirer, Reading Footballis a playbook to understanding America.Robert Lipsyte, sports columnist forThe New York Times, "Oriard's important book is a welcome, extremely insightful cultural history of football's early decades."-- American Historical Review, The starting point of this careful, fascinating study of football's emerging importance at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century is Michael Oriard's contention that football or more particularly the vast body of writing about football offers the scholar a rich and unique cultural text of the times.-- Journal of Southern History, Oriard's important book is a welcome, extremely insightful cultural history of football's early decades."-- American Historical Review
Dewey Decimal
796.3230973
Edition Description
New Edition
Synopsis
Is football an athletic contest or a social event? Is it a game of skill, a test of manhood, or merely an organized brawl? Michael Oriard, a former professional player, asks these and other intriguing questions in Reading Football , the first contemporary book about football's formative years.American football began in the 1870s as a game to be played, not watched. Within a brief ten years, it had become a great public spectacle with an immense following, a phenomenon caused primarily by the voluminous commentary about the game conducted in popular newspapers and magazines.Oriard shows how this constant narrative in football's early years developed many different stories about what the game meant : football as pastime, as the sport of gentlemen, as a science, as a game of rules and their infringements. He shows how football became a series of cultural stories about power, luck, strategy, and deception. These different interpretations have been magnified by football's current omnipresence on television. According to Oriard, televised football now plays a cultural role of enormous importance for men, yet within the field of cultural studies the influence of football has been ignored until now.From the book: "A receiver sprints down the sideline, fast and graceful, then breaks toward the middle of the field where a safety waits for him. From forty yards upfield the quarterback releases the ball; it spirals in an elegant arc toward the goalposts as the receiver now for the first time looks back to pick up its flight. The pass is a little high; the receiver leaps, stretches, grasps the ball -- barely, fingers clutching -- at the very moment that the safety drives a helmet into his unprotected ribs. The force of the collision flings the receiver backward, slamming him to the turf. . . . This familiar tableau, this exemplary moment in a football game, epitomizes the appeal of the sport: the dramatic confrontation of artistry with violence, both equally necessary.", Is football an athletic contest or a social event? Is it a game of skill, a test of manhood, or merely an organized brawl? Michael Oriard, a former professional player, asks these and other intriguing questions in Reading Football , the first contemporary book about football's formative years. American football began in the 1870s as a game to be played, not watched. Within a brief ten years, it had become a great public spectacle with an immense following, a phenomenon caused primarily by the voluminous commentary about the game conducted in popular newspapers and magazines. Oriard shows how this constant narrative in football's early years developed many different stories about what the game meant : football as pastime, as the sport of gentlemen, as a science, as a game of rules and their infringements. He shows how football became a series of cultural stories about power, luck, strategy, and deception. These different interpretations have been magnified by football's current omnipresence on television. According to Oriard, televised football now plays a cultural role of enormous importance for men, yet within the field of cultural studies the influence of football has been ignored until now. From the book: A receiver sprints down the sideline, fast and graceful, then breaks toward the middle of the field where a safety waits for him. From forty yards upfield the quarterback releases the ball; it spirals in an elegant arc toward the goalposts as the receiver now for the first time looks back to pick up its flight. The pass is a little high; the receiver leaps, stretches, grasps the ball -- barely, fingers clutching -- at the very moment that the safety drives a helmet into his unprotected ribs. The force of the collision flings the receiver backward, slamming him to the turf. . . . This familiar tableau, this exemplary moment in a football game, epitomizes the appeal of the sport: the dramatic confrontation of artistry with violence, both equally necessary., Is football an athletic contest or a social event? Is it a game of skill, a test of manhood, or merely an organized brawl? Michael Oriard, a former professional player, asks these and other intriguing questions inReading Football, the first contemporary book about football's formative years. American football began in the 1870s as a game to be played, not watched. Within a brief ten years, it had become a great public spectacle with an immense following, a phenomenon caused primarily by the voluminous commentary about the game conducted in popular newspapers and magazines. Oriard shows how this constant narrative in football's early years developed many different stories about what the gamemeant: football as pastime, as the sport of gentlemen, as a science, as a game of rules and their infringements. He shows how football became a series of cultural stories about power, luck, strategy, and deception. These different interpretations have been magnified by football's current omnipresence on television. According to Oriard, televised football now plays a cultural role of enormous importance for men, yet within the field of cultural studies the influence of football has been ignored until now., Is football an athletic contest or a social event? Is it a game of skill, a test of manhood, or merely an organized brawl? Michael Oriard, a former professional player, asks these and other intriguing questions in Reading Football , the first contemporary book about football's formative years. American football began in the 1870s as a game to be played, not watched. Within a brief ten years, it had become a great public spectacle with an immense following, a phenomenon caused primarily by the voluminous commentary about the game conducted in popular newspapers and magazines. Oriard shows how this constant narrative in football's early years developed many different stories about what the game meant football as pastime, as the sport of gentlemen, as a science, as a game of rules and their infringements. He shows how football became a series of cultural stories about power, luck, strategy, and deception. These different interpretations have been magnified by football's current omnipresence on television. According to Oriard, televised football now plays a cultural role of enormous importance for men, yet within the field of cultural studies the influence of football has been ignored until now. From the book: "A receiver sprints down the sideline, fast and graceful, then breaks toward the middle of the field where a safety waits for him. From forty yards upfield the quarterback releases the ball; it spirals in an elegant arc toward the goalposts as the receiver now for the first time looks back to pick up its flight. The pass is a little high; the receiver leaps, stretches, grasps the ball--barely, fingers clutching--at the very moment that the safety drives a helmet into his unprotected ribs. The force of the collision flings the receiver backward, slamming him to the turf. . . . This familiar tableau, this exemplary moment in a football game, epitomizes the appeal of the sport: the dramatic confrontation of artistry with violence, both equally necessary.", American football is a great public spectacle with an immense following. The author of this book aims to show how the press projected it: football as pastime, as the sport of gentlemen, as a science, and as a game of rules and their infringements.
LC Classification Number
92-42840 [GV]
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