Sports Semiotics (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9789004541344)

Sports Semiotics applies semiotics (and other disciplines, secondarily) to analyse the social, cultural, economic and psychological significance of sports. It includes a primer on semiotic theory, sections on the analysis of wrestling by Roland Barthes in his book Mythologies, as well as sections on football and the sacred, the Super Bowl, and the semiotics of televised baseball.

Author: Arthur Asa Berger
ISBN-10: 9004541349
ISBN-13: 9789004541344
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 03/16/2023
Pages: 80
Format: Paperback