Examining identity in sports media. (2009)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Editors, Heather L. Hundley, Andrew C. Billings.
• Other Names: Hundley, Heather L; Billings, Andrew C
• Contents: Examining identity in sports media / Andrew C. Billings and Heather L. Hundley -- The Rene Portland case : new homophobia and heterosexism in women's sports coverage / Marie Hardin and Erin Whiteside -- Exploring the influence of mediated beauty : competitive female athletes' perceptions of ideal beauty in athletes and other women / Kim L. Bissell -- Making masculinity and framing femininity : FIFA, soccer, and World Cup websites / Lindsey J. Meân -- Gendered sports dirt : interrogating sex and the single beer commercial / Lawrence A. Wenner -- Hegemonic masculinity and the rogue warrior : Lance Armstrong as (symbolic) American / Bryan E. Denham and Andrea Duke -- Do you believe in nationalism? : American patriotism in miracle / Michael L. Butterworth -- The whiteness of sport media/scholarship / Mary G. McDonald -- A content analysis of racial representations of NBA athletes on sports illustrated magazine covers : 1970-2003 / Benjamin D. Goss, Andrew L. Tyler, and Andrew C. Billings -- Sporting images of disability : murderball and the rehabilitation of masculine identity / James L. Cherney and Kurt Lindemann -- The effects of outcome of mediated and live sporting events on sports fans' self- and social identities / Jennings Bryant and R. Glenn Cummins -- The institutional(ized) nature of identity in and around sport(s) / Kelby K. Halone.
• Publisher Details: Thousand Oaks : SAGE Publications, Inc
• Publication Date: 2009
• Extent: 1 online resource (288 pages)
• Subjects: 306.4/83; Gender identity; Gender identity in mass media; Communication in sports
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781483342740; 1483342743
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.