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9780791473931

Give and Go : Basketball As a Cultural Practice

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  • ISBN13:

    9780791473931

  • ISBN10:

    0791473937

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2008-03-06
  • Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

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Summary

A pickup basketball player looks at the pickup game as a distinctive culture using both personal experience and cultural studies theory.

Author Biography

Thomas Mc Laughlin is Professor of English at Appalachian State University and the author of several books, including Street Smarts and Critical Theory: Listening to the Vernacular

Table of Contents

Acknowledgmentsp. vii
Introduction: Basketball as a Cultural Practicep. 1
The Ethics of Basketballp. 23
"Man to Man": Basketball, Movement, and the Practice of Masculinityp. 47
Basketball, Decision Making, and Postindustrial Culturep. 73
Basketball as Community of Practicep. 95
Basketball and Racial Identityp. 137
Televising Basketball: Spectacle and Representation, Display and Controlp. 163
Representing the Culture: Movies about Basketballp. 195
Works Citedp. 235
Suggested Readingsp. 243
Indexp. 245
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