Reading Football: How the Popular Press Created an American Spectacle (Cultural Studies of the United States) - Softcover

Oriard, Michael

 
9780807847510: Reading Football: How the Popular Press Created an American Spectacle (Cultural Studies of the United States)

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The first contemporary book about football's formative years. Oriard, a former professional football player, examines how American football changed from a game to be played to a game to be watched.

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Michael Oriard, who played professional football for the Kansas City Chiefs from 1970 to 1973, is Distinguished Professor of American Literature and Culture at Oregon State University. He is author of Dreaming of Heroes: American Sports Fiction, 1868-1980, The End of Autumn: Reflections on My Life in Football, and Sporting with the Gods: The Rhetoric of Play and Game in American Culture.

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The first contemporary book about football's formative years. Oriard, a former professional football player, examines how American football changed from a game to be played to a game to be watched.

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The first contemporary book about football's formative years. Oriard, a former professional football player, examines how American football changed from a game to be played to a game to be watched.

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9780807820834: Reading Football: How the Popular Press Created an American Spectacle (Cultural Studies of the United States)

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ISBN 10:  0807820830 ISBN 13:  9780807820834
Verlag: The University of North Carolina..., 1993
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