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Women's Sport and Spectacle: Gendered Television Coverage and the Olympic Games
By Gina Daddario
184 pages
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- Praeger
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- Westport, CT
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Synopsis
Historically, the mass media have marginalized women's sports by devoting more coverage to men's sports and trying to appeal to a male audience. This volume analyzes the mass media's portrayal of women's sports. The Olympic games are highlighted because they provide one of the few sports arenas where women's participation is heavily covered, promoted, and celebrated. The author suggests the media are recognizing the significance of female spectatorship and are attempting to respond to this growing ...
Historically, the mass media have marginalized women's sports by devoting more coverage to men's sports and trying to appeal to a male audience. This volume analyzes the mass media's portrayal of women's sports. The Olympic games are highlighted because they provide one of the few sports arenas where women's participation is heavily covered, promoted, and celebrated. The author suggests the media are recognizing the significance of female spectatorship and are attempting to respond to this growing audience by adopting some of the rhetorical and textual characteristics of soap opera and melodrama.
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Table of contents
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- Title Page iii
- Contents v
- Preface vii
- Introduction 1
- 1 - Feminist Sports Studies and Genre Criticism 9
- 2 - The Transformation of Women's Olympic Sport into Olympic Spectacle 33
- 3 - "Chilly Scenes" of the 1992 Winter Wgames 57
- 4 - Sports and Soaps: Gendered Coverage of the 1992 Summer Games 81
- Notes 104
- 5 - Soap on Ice: the Tonya Harding/Nancy Kerrigan Story and the 1994 Winter Games 105
- Notes 128
- 6 - Mediated Melodramas and Network Nationalism: the 1996 Summer Games 129
- Notes 160
- Bibliography 161
- Index 169
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