Fields in Vision : Television Sport and Cultural Transformation de Whannel, Garry

Routledge, 1992-10-15. Paperback. Good. 0.7087 9.0551 6.1417. Cover and edges shows heavy wear.

Paperback. Very Good.

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Routledge. Very Good. 1992. Paperback. 0415053838 . 243 pages .

London: Routledge, 1992. Soft cover. Good. Through study of the development of televised sport, taking the commercial and social changes that underpin the growth of sport as entertainment. EX-LIBRARY but tags removed, some markings/stamps on title page but interior is clean and unmarked. Good overall.

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New. Fields in Vision offers a comprehensive and analytical study of the international phenomenon of television sports coverage. Garry Whannel considers the historical development of sport on television, the growth of sponsorship and the way that television and sponsorship have re-shaped sport in the context of the enterprise culture. Drawing on archival research, Whannel first charts the development of the BBC Outside Broadcast department, and the growing battle for dominance between BBC and ITV, showing how sponsorship and the rising power of sports agents began to transform sport - not only in the UK but across the world - in the 1960s. He goes on to examine the implications of this vast and escalating global network during the 1980s by analysing the central role that stars and narratives began to play in television sport, presenting case studies of major contests such as Coe versus Ovett and Decker versus Budd. His study also takes into account one of the more indirect, but no less significant… Leer más

Paperback / softback. New. Television sports coverage is examined in the first study of its kind. This book considers the historical development of sport on television and the way that sponsorship and television have re-shaped sport.

Routledge, 1992. Paperback. New. 1st edition. 256 pages. 9.25x6.50x1.00 inches.