Abstract
Foreword: Football as Mediated Spectacle * Michael Oriard Introduction: The Political Football: Culture, Critique, and the NFL * Thomas P. Oates and Zack Furness Production, Promotion, and Control 1 The Greatest Game Ever Played: An NFL Origin Story * Daniel A. Grano 2 Game Time: A History of the Managerial Authority of the Instant Replay * Dylan Mulvin 3 The Ochocinco Brand: Social Media's Impact on the NFL's Institutional Control * Jacob Dittmer 4 New Media and the Repackaging of NFL Fandom * Thomas P. Oates II Identities, Social Hierarchies, and Cultural Power 5 NFL Sex * Toby Miller 6 Football and Ghettocentric Logics? The NFL's Essentialist Mobilization of Black Bodies* Ronald L. Mower, David L. Andrews, and Oliver J. C. Rick 7 I Was a Gladiator: Pain, Injury, and Masculinity in the NFL * Katie Rodgers 8 Masculinity, Race, and Violence in Any Given Sunday * Aaron Baker 9 Spignesi, Sinatra, and the Pittsburgh Steelers: Franco's Italian Army as an Expression of Ethnic Identity, 1972--1977 * Nicholas P. Ciotola III Gridirons and Battlefields 10 Offensive Lines: Sport-State Synergy in an Era of Perpetual War * Samantha King 11 NFL Films and the Militarization of Professional Football * Michael L. Butterworth 12 For the Love of National Manhood: Excavating the Cultural Politics and Media Memorializations of Pat Tillman * Kyle W. Kusz Contributors Index
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