Post-Fandom and the Millennial Blues: The Transformation of Soccer Culture

by Steve Redhead

Overview

Soccer fandom has traditionally been seen as an important part of adolescent, generally male, identity making. In Post-Fandom and the Millennial Blues , Steve Redhead shows how this tradition of youth culture of fandom has been eroded in the last years of the twentieth century by the more fleeting, style conscious allegiances inspired by television, films and music. The clubs that young people follow are determined by advertising and popular music; the games that they watch are brought to them by the globalized culture of television, as in the world cup staged in America; even their fears of so-called soccer hooliganism are determined by media-engendered moral panics at a time when the phenomenon itself seems to be dying away.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781134821136
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/01/2002
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	176
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Steve Redhead is Professor of Law and Popular Culture at the School of Law, The Manchester Metropolitan University.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Post-Youth; Chapter 2 Post(Realist)-Realism; Chapter 3 Post-Fandom and Hyperlegality; Chapter 4 Hyperreality Bytes; Chapter 5 (Channel) Surfin’ USA; Chapter 6 The Sound of the Stadium; Chapter 7 These Charming Fans; Chapter 8 Post-Culture;

Editorial Reviews

Redhead (law, popular culture, Manchester Metropolitan U.) looks at the way youth culture is being reshaped by media culture in its various aspects at the end of the millennium. He looks at post-fandom, the style conscious shifting allegiances heavily influenced by advertising and popular music, at the globalization and mediatization of sports culture, and at the complicated relations between football and the law reflected in the public obsession with soccer hooliganism at a time when it seemed to be dying away. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Booknews

'Popcult professor switches his attention from rave culture to soccer culture with pleasing and productive results.' - ID Magazine

'an original and ... perceptive look at the game ... Redhead curls his educated left foot around the transformation of soccer culture.' - Hugh MacDonald, The Herald

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