Sport, Spectacle, and NASCAR Nation
Download or Read eBook Sport, Spectacle, and NASCAR Nation PDF written by J. Newman and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-10-10 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
| Author | : J. Newman |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 439 |
| Release | : 2011-10-10 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9780230338081 |
| ISBN-13 | : 0230338089 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (81 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Sport, Spectacle, and NASCAR Nation by : J. Newman
Book excerpt: Sport, Spectacle, and NASCAR Nation critically interrogates stockcar racing's ascendance into the upper-echelon of the North American sporting popular. While most contributions to the public discourse gloss over NASCAR's exclusively white racial identity politics, its underlying patriarchal gender politics, its overtly conservative political commitment, its hyper-Christian orthodoxy, and its omnipresent commercialism, this book connects the dots and critically analyzes the problematic nature of this non-natural, strategically-orchestrated sporting spectacle.
