Sports Semiotics Arthur Asa Berger.
Sports Semiotics applies semiotics (and other disciplines, secondarily) to analyse the social, cultural, economic and psychological significance of sports. It includes a primer on semiotic theory, sections on the analysis of wrestling by Roland Barthes in his book Mythologies , as well as sections o...
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Leiden ; Boston :
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2023.
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Table of Contents:
- List of Figures
- Abstract
- Keywords
- 1 A Primer on Semiotics
- 2 Roland Barthes on Professional Wrestling
- 3 Baseball: Threes, Fours, and Exclusions
- 4 Fenway Park
- 5 Football and the Sacred
- 6 The Semiotics of Televised Baseball
- 7 The Super Bowl
- 8 Football: Semiotics, Psyche and Society
- 9 Coda
- Acknowledgments
- Reference.