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Indecent Acts in a Public Place : Sports, Insolence and Sedition
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1486322Indecent Acts in a Public Place : Sports, Insolence and Seditionhttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/indecent-acts-in-a-public-place-sports-insolence-and-sedition-1/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/1311627/e2dfae80-77eb-4534-a143-50cd1f8ed594.jpg?v=6383378443976000001414MXNCharivari PressInStock/Ebooks/<p><em>Indecent Acts In A Public Place</em> offers four provocative essays that mark a radical departure from traditional descriptions of sports as a cultural event. It rejects any notion that sport is merely a passive consumer activity that indoctrinates the participant into particular social values and acceptance of his representation. Instead, these essays look at challenges by sports fans and athletes to the cathartic spectacle and their own seeming impotence. They argue that what is absolutely essential to sport, and what makes sport so popular, are its qualities of contestation of external authority and representation, hedonism and possibilities for creativity. For it is just these qualities (noise, disruption, festival, sensuality and antisocialness) that sport, as a business, seeks both to contain and commodify. <em>Indecent Acts In A Public Place</em> considers sport with an attention to current critical theory that is usually reserved for high art, yet at the same time it is accessible, polemical, imaginative and witty. Along the way it takes up such fascinating and amusing questions as "Why do baseball players spit?" and "Why are athletes usually stupid?"</p>...1469537Indecent Acts in a Public Place : Sports, Insolence and Sedition1414https://www.gandhi.com.mx/indecent-acts-in-a-public-place-sports-insolence-and-sedition-1/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/1311627/e2dfae80-77eb-4534-a143-50cd1f8ed594.jpg?v=638337844397600000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20131230000192264_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_<p><em>Indecent Acts In A Public Place</em> offers four provocative essays that mark a radical departure from traditional descriptions of sports as a cultural event. It rejects any notion that sport is merely a passive consumer activity that indoctrinates the participant into particular social values and acceptance of his representation. Instead, these essays look at challenges by sports fans and athletes to the cathartic spectacle and their own seeming impotence. They argue that what is absolutely essential to sport, and what makes sport so popular, are its qualities of contestation of external authority and representation, hedonism and possibilities for creativity. For it is just these qualities (noise, disruption, festival, sensuality and antisocialness) that sport, as a business, seeks both to contain and commodify. <em>Indecent Acts In A Public Place</em> considers sport with an attention to current critical theory that is usually reserved for high art, yet at the same time it is accessible, polemical, imaginative and witty. Along the way it takes up such fascinating and amusing questions as "Why do baseball players spit?" and "Why are athletes usually stupid?"</p>(*_*)1230000192264_<p><em>Indecent Acts In A Public Place</em> offers four provocative essays that mark a radical departure from traditional descriptions of sports as a cultural event. It rejects any notion that sport is merely a passive consumer activity that indoctrinates the participant into particular social values and acceptance of his representation. Instead, these essays look at challenges by sports fans and athletes to the cathartic spectacle and their own seeming impotence. They argue that what is absolutely essential to sport, and what makes sport so popular, are its qualities of contestation of external authority and representation, hedonism and possibilities for creativity. For it is just these qualities (noise, disruption, festival, sensuality and antisocialness) that sport, as a business, seeks both to contain and commodify. <em>Indecent Acts In A Public Place</em> considers sport with an attention to current critical theory that is usually reserved for high art, yet at the same time it is accessible, polemical, imaginative and witty. Along the way it takes up such fascinating and amusing questions as "Why do baseball players spit?" and "Why are athletes usually stupid?"</p>...1230000192264_Charivari Presslibro_electonico_b4eadd3d-fcd4-3b21-a406-e4eee3b4f228_1230000192264;1230000192264_1230000192264Rod DubeyInglésMéxicohttps://getbook.kobo.com/koboid-prod-public/d3216822-213a-49e8-b167-7928f6db48df-epub-58b52f52-67b3-4679-8553-25de18091c89.epub2013-10-17T00:00:00+00:00Charivari Press