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106-103 Sports, Entertainment and the Media | |
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Availability | 2nd and 3rd year |
Credit Points | 12.5 |
HECS Band | 1 |
Coordinator | Philip Morrissey |
Prerequisites | Fifty points of first year arts including at least 25 points from a specified list of subject areas, see Prerequisites. |
Semester | 1 (view timetable) |
Contact | Thirty hours of lectures and 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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