{"product_id":"the-nfl-9781439909584","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. Yet despite intense and near ubiquitous media coverage, commentators rarely turn a critical lens on the league to ask what material and social forces have contributed to its success, and how the NFL has influenced public life in the United States.   The editors of and contributors to The NFL examine the league as a culturally, economically, and politically powerful presence in American life. The essays, by established and up-and-coming scholars, explore how the NFL is packaged for commercial consumption, the league's influence on American identity, and its relationship to state and cultural militarism.    The NFL is the first collection of critical essays to focus attention on the NFL as a cultural force. It boldly moves beyond popular celebrations of the sport and toward a fuller understanding of football's role in shaping contemporary sport, media, and everyday life.  Contribut\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":49408307167575,"sku":"9781439909584","price":22.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781439909584.jpg?v=1730502375","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-nfl-9781439909584","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}