Interdisciplinary Analyses of Professional Basketball Investigating the Hardwood
This edited collection conceptualizes professional basketball not just as a sport but as an historically, culturally, and economically embedded entity. The chapters analyse the fact that the sport of basketball contains alternative logics that can easily clash, and by treating professional basketbal...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Palgrave Macmillan
2024, 2024
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2024 |
| Series: | Global Culture and Sport Series
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 1.Court Inspection – Introduction to the Edited Collection
- Section 1: The Name of the Game – Rules, Strategies, and Regulations
- 2. Rules, Referees and Recruiting Violations
- 3. Born into Failure – A Recontextualization of the WNBA by an Investigation of the ABL
- 4. Rule Changes and Racism in the NBA
- 5. “BANG!”: Language and the Policing of Sexuality in the NBA
- Section 2: For the Love of the Game – Basketball and its Wider Cultural Relations
- 6. On the Development of Kobe Bryant’s Persona
- 7. You Either Got a Wicked Jumpshot or Selling Crack Rocks – On Basketball’s and Hip Hop’s Shared Foundation
- 8. Double-Dribbles, Dunks, and Dice: The History and Cultural Significance of Basketball Board Games
- 9. “What is He, Your Coach?”: Uncut Gems as a Basketball Movie
- 10. Basketball in Young Adult Literature (Liliana Santos)
- Section 3: Basketball in the Age of (Global) Expansion
- 11. The Basketball Show in The North of France - When the NBA Globalized Culture meets TheLocal Carnival Culture (David Sudre)
- 12. The influence of NBA overseas pre and post pandemic: The case of Mexico (Luis Barroso)
- 13. A geopolitical firestorm between the NBA and China over a tweet (Michelle Tran)
- 14. Marketing the League – A Discourse Analysis of the NBA’s Social Media Handles (Niklas Thomas)