How Postmodernism Explains Football and Football Explains Postmodernism: The Billy Clyde Conundrum
American football and postmodernist theory are both objects of popular and scholarly interest that reveal remarkable sociological insights. Analysis of media-driven commercial football documents how narratives of sportsmanship/brutality, heroism/antiheroi
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How Postmodernism Explains Football and Football Explains Postmodernism
Also by Robert L. Kerr The Corporate Free Speech Movement: Cognitive Feudalism and the Endangered Marketplace of Ideas The Rights of Corporate Speech: Mobil Oil and the Legal Development of the Voice of Big Business Half Luck and Half Brains: The Kemmons Wilson Story
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137534071.0001
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Robert L. Kerr Professor, University of Oklahoma, USA
DOI: 10.1057/9781137534071.0001
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How Postmodernism Explains Football and Football Explains Postmodernism: The Billy Clyde Conundrum
HOW POSTMODERNISM EXPLAINS FOOTBALL AND FOOTBALL EXPLAINS POSTMODERNISM Copyright © Robert L. Kerr, 2015. All rights reserved.
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1 Introduction—Why This Game, Why This Story
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2 America Meets Football, and Football Meets Frank Merriwell
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3 Time Runs Out on the Wholesome Warrior
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4 Center Stage for Billy Clyde
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5 Scenes from the Conundrum in Motion
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6 A Postmodernist Theory of Football
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7 Life in the Hyper-Mediated Marketplace of Football Narratives
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8 A Merriwellean Billy Clyde from a Postmodern Beer a Minute
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9 Two-Tiered Gender System Encounters Emotion Wo
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