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How Postmodernism Explains Football and Football Explains Postmodernism: The Billy Clyde Conundrum

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  • © 2015

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  1. Robert L. Kerr

    1. University of Oklahoma, USA

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vi
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  2. Introduction—Why This Game, Why This Story

    • Robert L. Kerr
    Pages 1-6

  3. America Meets Football, and Football Meets Frank Merriwell

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    Pages 7-21

  4. Time Runs Out on the Wholesome Warrior

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    Pages 22-35

  5. Center Stage for Billy Clyde

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    Pages 36-51

  6. Scenes from the Conundrum in Motion

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    Pages 52-66

  7. A Postmodernist Theory of Football

    • Robert L. Kerr
    Pages 67-79

  8. Life in the Hyper-Mediated Marketplace of Football Narratives

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    Pages 80-98

  9. A Merriwellean Billy Clyde from a Postmodern Beer a Minute

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    Pages 99-111

  10. Two-Tiered Gender System Encounters Emotion Work

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    Pages 112-124

  11. Conclusion—Football, Postmodernism, and Us

    • Robert L. Kerr
    Pages 125-126

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 127-143
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About this book

American football and postmodernist theory are both objects of popular and scholarly interest that reveal remarkable sociological insights. Analysis of media-driven commercial football documents how narratives of sportsmanship/brutality, heroism/antiheroism, athleticism/self-indulgence, honor/chicanery, and chivalry/sexism compete and thrive.

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“This text presents a fascinating examination of its subject and offers an important contribution to our understanding of the role football plays in our culture and society. I recommend it to all academic readers interested in postmodernism or sports culture.” (Danielle Sarver Coombs, Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Vol. 96 (2), 2019)

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  • University of Oklahoma, USA

    Robert L. Kerr

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Robert Kerr is Edith Kinney Gaylord Presidential Professor at Gaylord College, University of Oklahoma, USA.

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