{"product_id":"cultural-politics-of-post-9-11-american-sport-paperback-softback","title":"Cultural Politics of Post-9\/11 American Sport - Paperback \/ softback","description":"\u003cp\u003eMuch of the writing on the post-9\/11 period in the United States has focused on the role of \"official\" Government rhetoric about 9\/11. Those who have focused on the news media have suggested that they played a key role in (re)defining the nation, allowing the citizenry to come to terms with 9\/11, in providing ‘official’ understandings and interpretations of the event, and setting the terms for a geo-political-military response (the war on terror). However, strikingly absent from post-9\/11 writing has been discussion on the role of sport in this moment. This text provides the first, book-length account, of the ways in which the sport media, in conjunction with a number of interested parties – sporting, state, corporate, philanthropic and military – operated with a seeming collective affinity to conjure up nation, to define nation and its citizenry, and, to demonize others. Through analysis of a variety of cultural products – film, children’s baseball, the Super Bowl, the Olympics, reality television – the book reveals how, in the post-9\/11 moment, the sporting popular operated as a powerful and highly visible pedagogic weapon in the armory of the Bush Administration, operating to define ways of being American and thus occlude other ways of being.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44575259394286,"sku":"9780415719643","price":77.59,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0630\/9612\/7726\/files\/9780415719643.jpg?v=1704395973","url":"https:\/\/bookland.com.au\/products\/cultural-politics-of-post-9-11-american-sport-paperback-softback","provider":"Book Land AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}