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106-103 Sports, Entertainment and the Media | |
Credit Points | 12.5 |
HECS Band | 1 |
Coordinator | Philip Morrissey |
Prerequisites | Usually 25 points of English |
Semester | 1 (view timetable) |
Contact | A 1-hour lecture per week and nine 2-hour tutorials scheduled across the semester |
Subject Description | This subject considers a range of international sports and sporting events (including professional boxing, cricket and soccer and the Olympic Games). It examines the means by which traditional cultures of particular sports resist or adapt to the demands of consumer capitalism, analyses the relation between professional sport and other forms of popular entertainment and examines how international sport operates through intersecting narratives of class, national identity, race, gender and politics. Texts used include John Hargreas, Sport, Power and Culture: A Social and Historical Analysis of Popular Sports in Britain; John Bale, Landscapes of Modern Sport; Stephen Wagg, Giving the Game Away: Football, Politics and Culture on Five Continents; Barrie Houlihan, Sport and International Politics. Upon completion of this subject, students will have an understanding of the interplay between sports and sporting events and media and entertainment conglomerates. |
Assessment | Class participation, and written work totalling 4000 words. |
Prescribed Texts | A subject reader will be available. |
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