{"product_id":"the-nfl-9781439909577","title":"The NFL","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe National Football League is one of the most significant cultural engines in contemporary American life. This book offers a collection of critical essays to focus attention on the NFL as a cultural force.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e Foreword: Football as Mediated Spectacle • Michael Oriard\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Introduction: The Political Football: Culture, Critique, and the NFL • Thomas P. Oates and Zack Furness\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e I Production, Promotion, and Control\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  1 The Greatest Game Ever Played: An NFL Origin Story • Daniel A. Grano\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  2 Game Time: A History of the Managerial Authority of the Instant Replay • Dylan Mulvin\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  3 The Ochocinco Brand: Social Media’s Impact on the NFL’s Institutional Control • Jacob Dittmer\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  4 New Media and the Repackaging of NFL Fandom • Thomas P. Oates\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e II Identities, Social Hierarchies, and Cultural Power\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  5 NFL Sex • Toby Miller\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  6 Football and “Ghettocentric” Logics? The NFL’s Essentialist Mobilization of Black Bodies• Ronald L. Mower, David L. Andrews, and Oliver J. C. Rick\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  7 “I Was a Gladiator”: Pain, Injury, and Masculinity in the NFL • Katie Rodgers\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  8 Masculinity, Race, and Violence in Any Given Sunday • Aaron Baker\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  9 Spignesi, Sinatra, and the Pittsburgh Steelers: Franco’s Italian Army as an Expression of Ethnic Identity, 1972–1977 • Nicholas P. Ciotola\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e III Gridirons and Battlefields\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  10 Offensive Lines: Sport-State Synergy in an Era of Perpetual War • Samantha King\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  11 NFL Films and the Militarization of Professional Football • Michael L. Butterworth\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  12 For the Love of National Manhood: Excavating the Cultural Politics and Media Memorializations of Pat Tillman • Kyle W. Kusz\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Contributors\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Temple University Press,U.S.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408307102039,"sku":"9781439909577","price":52.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781439909577.jpg?v=1730502374","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-nfl-9781439909577","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}