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  • - The Early Game in the Golden Age of Illustration
    av Michael Oriard
    411,-

    Offers a singular look at early college football art and illustrations. This collection contains more than two hundred images, many rare or previously unpublished, from a variety of sources, including artists Winslow Homer, Edward Penfield, J.C. Leyendecker, Frederic Remington, Charles Dana Gibson, George Bellows, and many others.

  • - Big-Time College Football from the Sixties to the BCS Era
    av Michael Oriard
    445,-

    Explores a wide range of trends that have changed the face of big-time college football and transformed the role of the student-athlete. This book considers such issues as the politicization of football in the 1960s and the implications of the integration of college football.

  • - Making and Selling America's Favorite Sport
    av Michael Oriard
    440,-

    Offering a view of National Football League since 1960, this book looks at the development of the sport and at the image of NFL and its place in American life. It traces the evolution of Super Bowl, development of NFL Films and ESPN, rise of the commissioner as corporate CEO, the management of player demands, and changing attitudes toward race.

  • - Sport and Spectacle in the Golden Age of Radio and Newsreels, Movies and Magazines, the Weekly and the Daily Press
    av Michael Oriard
    611,-

    In this landmark work exploring the vibrant world of football from the 1920s through the 1950s, the author explores how the mass media shaped and were shaped by the exploding popularity of football. King Football is at once a cultural history of football and a provocative study of the power of print and broadcast media.

  • - Reflections on My Life in Football
    av Michael Oriard
    319,-

    A classic recollection of college and pro football, from a player's inside perspective

  • - The Rhetoric of Play and Game in American Literature
    av Michael Oriard
    760 - 2 299,-

    Sporting with the Gods examines the metaphors of 'play', 'game' and 'sport' as they are reflected in American literature and culture. The book traces the cultural history of these metaphors primarily through American literary texts resulting in a cultural history of America from its inception.

  • - How the Popular Press Created an American Spectacle
    av Michael Oriard
    611,-

    American football is a great public spectacle with an immense following. The author of this book aims to show how the press projected it: football as pastime, as the sport of gentlemen, as a science, and as a game of rules and their infringements.

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