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comprehensively analyses two of the most powerful
cultural forces of our times: sport and media. It examines the ways in which media
photography, news reporting, film, live commentary, creative sports writing and new
practices of those who produce them, and the economic and political influences on
and implications of ‘the media sports cultural complex’.The second part,“Unmaking
sport has established itself in contemporary everyday life, and how sport and media
New scholarship and research on recent sports events like the Olympics and the
and the ways in which broadcast and print sports texts are produced, the values and
The first part of the book,“Making Media Sport”, traces the rise of the sports media
Updated coverage of political economy, including major changes in the ownership
World Cup, sports television and press, and theoretical developments in areas like
has degrees in Sociology from the universities of Nottingham,Y ork and
Essex. He is Director of the Cultural Industries and Practices Research Centre (CIPS)
“The book is extremely well-written – ideal as a student text, yet also at the forefront
and Associate Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Newcastle,
“A thoroughly worthwhile read and an excellent addition to the growing literature on
This is a key textbook for undergraduate studies in culture and media, sociology, sport
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