Sport and the Media

Defining Sport Communication is a comprehensive resource addressing core topics and issues, including humanistic, organizational, relational, and mediated approaches to the study of sport communication. It provides foundational work in sport communication for students and scholars, reflecting the ab..

This book focuses on the processes of documenting the Beijing Olympics – ranging from the visual (television and film) to radio and the written word – and the meanings generated by such representations._x005F_x000D_ It was published as a special issue of Sport in Society...

This book analyzes contemporary media representations and the ways in which they are interpreted and used by football media audiences. It was originally published as a special issue of Soccer and Society...

This book provides new and critical insights into how mediated football influences, and is affected by, discourses and stereotypes about race/ethnicity, nation and gender that operate at local, national and global levels. It analyzes contemporary media representations and the ways in which they are ..

This book provides an overview of how the Olympic experience has been shaped by media entities, across various platforms and formats. Built around a central case study of NBC’s coverage of the Rio Games, it draws on unique access to that network’s producers and sportscasters to explore the productio..

The Routledge Handbook of Sport and New Media is the most comprehensive and in-depth study of the impact of new media in sport ever to be published. Adopting a broad, interdisciplinary approach, the book explores new media in sport as a cultural, social, commercial, economic, and technological pheno..

Sport competitions at the national, European and global levels have evolved in terms of economic investment, social importance and media coverage. However, this evolution has brought with it major political concerns. This edition stresses some critical reflectons regarding security policies before a..

_x000D_ Sport and Film traces the history of the sports film, from the beginnings of cinema in the 1890s, its consolidation as a distinct fiction genre in the mid 1920s in Hollywood films such as Harold Lloyd’s The Freshman (1925), to its contemporary manifestation in Oscar-winning films such as Mil..

_x005F_x000D_ Sport and Film traces the history of the sports film, from the beginnings of cinema in the 1890s, its consolidation as a distinct fiction genre in the mid 1920s in Hollywood films such as Harold Lloyd’s The Freshman (1925), to its contemporary manifestation in Oscar-winning films such ..

Bringing together many of the most influential scholars in sport and media studies, this book examines the diverse ways that media influences our understanding of the world’s most important sport events, dubbed sports mega-events. It sheds new light on how these events have been changed by the media..

This book addresses the close and longstanding links between sport and music with a series of highly original essays.  Topics include sport in music; music in sport;  the use of music in mass sporting events and sport; music and protest. As well as considering the sport/music nexus in Great Britain,..

This book examines the political debates over the access to live telecasts of sport in the digital broadcasting era. It outlines the broad theoretical debates, political positions and policy calculations over the provision of live, free-to-air telecasts of sport as a right of cultural citizenship. I..