Post-Fandom and the Millennial Blues: The Transformation of Soccer Culture by Steve Redhead


Post-Fandom and the Millennial Blues: The Transformation of Soccer Culture
Title : Post-Fandom and the Millennial Blues: The Transformation of Soccer Culture
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ISBN : 0415115280
ISBN-10 : 9780415115285
Language : English
Format Type : Paperback
Number of Pages : 172
Publication : First published October 23, 1997

Soccer fandom has traditionally been seen as an important part of adolescent, generally male, identity making. In Post-Fandom and the Millennial Blues , Steve Redhead shows how this tradition of youth culture of fandom has been eroded in the last years of the twentieth century by the more fleeting, style conscious allegiances inspired by television, films and music. The clubs that young people follow are determined by advertising and popular music; the games that they watch are brought to them by the globalized culture of television, as in the world cup staged in America; even their fears of so-called soccer hooliganism are determined by media-engendered moral panics at a time when the phenomenon itself seems to be dying away.

Post-Fandom and the Millennial Blues: The Transformation of Soccer Culture Reviews

  • Tara Brabazon<span class=

    Post fandom and the Millennial Blues transformed sports studies, leisure studies, football studies, sports law and fan studies. That is not even an expansive list. It was also expansively international in its outlook.

    The book performs how high theory can provide the mortar to align disparate spheres and paradigms like youth, sport, music and law. The exploration of 'translaw' and the 'hyperlegal' is potent, as is the emerging matrix between popular and post-realist culture.

    Placing, "Baudrillard on the ball," this book offer a key testament to 'post-postmodernism.' It was written in 1997 and was well ahead of the theoretical 'fashions.'

    Where the book remains important and incisive in its interventions today is in fan studies. Fan studies is in an absolutely diabolical state at the moment. Most of the 'monographs' - and I use that term loosely - that are produce are unreadable, remaining wedded to a bizarre fixation on identity and representation. In post-post-post-postmodernism, where the cascading simulacra pounds through our daily clocks, representation is the least of our worries. 'Post-realism' demands more of us as scholars.

  • Pinko Palest

    rather dated and quite irrelevant for the 2010s. Of course, this was writen before the advent of the Internet and a long time before the slump that fllowed the 2008 Crash. Its line of argument was fashionable in the mid 1990s but that's all there is to it