58 research outputs found
Modern āliveā football: moving from the panoptican gaze to the performative, virtual and carnivalesque
Drawing on Redhead's discussion of Baudrillard as a theorist of hyperreality, the paper considers the different ways in which the mediatized āliveā football spectacle is often modelled on the āliveā however eventually usurps the āliveā forms position in the cultural economy, thus beginning to replicate the mediatized āliveā. The blurring of the āliveā and ārealā through an accelerated mediatization of football allows the formation of an imagined community mobilized by the working class whilst mediated through the sanitization, selling of āeventsā and the middle classing of football, through the re-encoding of sporting spaces and strategic decision-making about broadcasting. A culture of pub supporting then allows potential for working-class supporters to remove themselves from the panoptican gazing systems of late modern hyperreal football stadia and into carnivalesque performative spaces, which in many cases are hyperreal and simulated themselves
Lock, stock and two smoking hooligans: low sport journalism and hitāandātell literature
The Last of the Working-Class Subcultures to Die? Real Tales of Football Hooligans in the Global Media Age
The local state and local economic policy: political mobilisation or economic regeneration
Using sigma-ligands as part of a multi-receptor approach to target diseases of the brain
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