Fields in vision
Television sport and cultural transformation
Fields in Vision offers a comprehensive and analytical study of the international phenomenon of television sports coverage. Garry Whannel considers the historical development of sport on television, the growth of sponsorship…
Understanding sport
A socio-cultural analysis, second edition
In the decade or more since publication of the first edition of 'Understanding Sport', both sport and wider global society have undergone profound change. In this fully updated, revised and…
Understanding the Olympics
The Olympic Games is unquestionably the greatest sporting event on earth, with television audiences measured in billions of viewers. By what process did the Olympics evolve into this multi-national phenomenon?…
Understanding sport
An introduction to the sociological and cultural analysis of sport
Boek dat de centrale elementen van de sociologische en culturele analyse van sport introduceert, gericht op studenten.