Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-179) and index.
Contents
Sport as performance : setting the stage -- Dropping hierarchies : toward the study of a contemporary sporting avant-garde -- Sport as kitsch : a case study of The American gladiators -- Sport as avant-garde : a case study of the World Wrestling Foundation -- Sport as epiphanic marker : a case study of Super Bowl XXVI -- Sport as postmodern construction : a case study of paintball -- Sport as constructed audience : a case study of ESPN's The eXtreme games -- Sport as postmodern tourism : warp speed in Barcelona (olympism, ideology, and experience).
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