The NFL
Critical and Cultural Perspectives

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268 pages
6 x 9
Table of Contents
Foreword: Football as Mediated Spectacle • Michael Oriard Introduction: The Political Football: Culture, Critique, and the NFL • Thomas P. Oates and Zack Furness I Production, Promotion, and Control 1 The Greatest Game Ever Played: An NFL Origin Story • Daniel A. Grano 2 Game Time: A History of the Managerial Authority of the Instant Replay • Dylan Mulvin 3 The Ochocinco Brand: Social Media’s Impact on the NFL’s Institutional Control • Jacob Dittmer 4 New Media and the Repackaging of NFL Fandom • Thomas P. Oates II Identities, Social Hierarchies, and Cultural Power 5 NFL Sex • Toby Miller 6 Football and “Ghettocentric” Logics? The NFL’s Essentialist Mobilization of Black Bodies • Ronald L. Mower, David L. Andrews, and Oliver J. C. Rick 7 “I Was a Gladiator”: Pain, Injury, and Masculinity in the NFL • Katie Rodgers 8 Masculinity, Race, and Violence in Any Given Sunday • Aaron Baker 9 Spignesi, Sinatra, and the Pittsburgh Steelers: Franco’s Italian Army as an Expression of Ethnic Identity, 1972–1977 • Nicholas P. Ciotola III Gridirons and Battlefields 10 Offensive Lines: Sport-State Synergy in an Era of Perpetual War • Samantha King 11 NFL Films and the Militarization of Professional Football • Michael L. Butterworth 12 For the Love of National Manhood: Excavating the Cultural Politics and Media Memorializations of Pat Tillman • Kyle W. Kusz Contributors Index
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Sporting edited by Amy Bass
As an international cultural activity for athleticism, spectatorship, and global cultural exchange, sport is unmatched by any other force on earth. And yet it remains a consistently understudied dimension of history and cultural studies. Sporting, edited by Amy Bass, aims to contribute to the study of sport by publishing works by people across a range of disciplines, by professional sportswriters, and by athletes to add substance to our still emerging notion of globalization.