| Title | : | Football and Accelerated Culture: This Modern Sporting Life |
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| ISBN | : | 113892315X |
| ISBN-10 | : | 9781138923157 |
| Format Type | : | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages | : | 134 |
| Publication | : | First published July 21, 2015 |
Drawing on international empirical research and a unique and ground-breaking study of football hooligan memoirs, the book delves into a wide array of disciplines, examining fascinating topics such as the relationship between music and football; hooligans and ultras; the rise of social media and anti-modern football movements; and ultra-realist criminology.
Football and Accelerated Culture offers a new way of thinking about sporting cultures that expands the boundaries of physical cultural studies. As such, it is important reading for anybody with an interest in the culture of sport and leisure, social theory, communication studies, criminology or socio-legal studies.
Football and Accelerated Culture: This Modern Sporting Life Reviews
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This book captures what Steve Redhead does best: remixing music, sport and theory. Virilio's capacity to scaffold our understanding of modern football is see-sawed with Baudrillard's ability to reveal the complexities of 'realist' football memoirs.
Time bounces, jumps and loops through this book. The stylish and smooth movements between high and low culture - indeed high and low popular culture - enable pithy and provocative commentaries on the state of cultural studies. It bubbles with subtle anger at the inability of cultural studies scholars to 'move on,' to transcend tired tropes, and get themselves out of the ridiculously fenced-in fairy tale of postmodernism. Redhead asks a better question. Parking postmodernism as redundant and wrong, what happens after modernity?
Now that is a question...
