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The sports show : athletics as image and spectacle
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"This book explores the role of photography and media (television, video, and digital technology) in transforming sports from a casual leisure activity into a spectacle of mass participation. It ca...
"This book explores the role of photography and media (television, video, and digital technology) in transforming sports from a casual leisure activity into a spectacle of mass participation. It catalogs photography and other media exhibited at "The Sports Show" - an exhibit held at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, February 19 through May 13, 2012"--
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- Creator
- David E. Little [exhibition curator] ; essays by Simon Critchley and Joyce Carol Oates
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
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- Publication
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- Minneapolis, Minn. : Minneapolis Institute of Arts : Distributed by The University of Minnesota Press, [2012]
- ©2012
- Physical Details
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- 302 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780816679379, 0816679371
- OCLC
- ocn759910025
- Includes bibliographical references.
- How sports became the "Sports Show": from the beginnings of photography to the Digital Age / David E. Little -- Working-class ballet / Simon Critchley -- Sporting leisure -- In the game: the machine-eye -- Everybody's a player -- Choosing side: rivals, race, and politics -- Pop icons: up close and very personal -- Sports spectacular -- The O.J. Simpson project -- O.J. Simpson interview by Roger Welch (1976) -- On boxing / Joyce Carol Oates -- Knockout: the body in pain -- Sports camera technology / Tom Arndt -- Time line of sports, media, and culture / compiled by Nicole Soukup