{"product_id":"sports-tv-victoria-e-johnson-9780415722940","title":"Sports TV","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book offers an introductory guide to sports TV, its history in the United States, the genre's defining characteristics, and analysis of its critical significance for the business practices, formal properties, and social, cultural, and political meanings of the medium.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eVictoria E. Johnson discusses a range of examples, from textual analysis of programs such as \u003ci\u003eMonday Night Football\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBeing Serena\u003c\/i\u003e to examination of television rights details, to sports TV's technological innovations and engagement of critical political debates. Johnson examines sports TV from its introduction to the ESPN+ era. She proposes that sports, as seen on TV in all of its iterations, is the central cultural forum for working through questions of community ideals, struggles over national and regional mythologies, and questions of representative citizenship.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis book is an ideal guide for students and scholars of television, media, and cultural studies as well as those with an interest in television genre, sports TV history, and contemporary sport and media culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Victoria E. Johnson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0415722942\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780415722940\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/25\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 196\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.46lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.81h x 5.06w x 0.44d","brand":"Victoria E. Johnson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43946606362879,"sku":"9780415722940","price":42.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_e77a5069-cca2-4976-aa6c-1bc0e3eecf8d.jpg?v=1681514098","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/sports-tv-victoria-e-johnson-9780415722940","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}