SPORT
ICE HOCKEY
British ice hockey constitutes an advanced example of the globalisation, commercialisation and changing nature of sport. Large proportions of female fans - or Puck Bunnies - follow ice-hockey, but it's unusual to see so many female fans at a sports match.
Laurie Taylor is joined by Garry Crawford, Senior Lecturer in Social and Cultural Studies in Sport at Sheffield Hallam University, to discuss the popularity of the sport with female fans and how the sport was specifically constructed for a consumerist, affluent market audience.
CONSUMERISM
As the resistance to Malcolm Glazers' attempts to take over Manchester United show, American and British sporting cultures don't mix easily.
Laurie Taylor is joined Ellis Cashmore , Professor of Culture, Media and Sport at Staffordshire University and author of a new book Making Sense of Sport, and Stefan Szymanski , Professor of Economics and Strategy at the Tanaka Business School, Imperial College London, to discuss what the British and American cultures tell us about the societies and economies that spawned them.
Additional information:
Garry Crawford
Senior Lecturer in Social and Cultural Studies in Sport at Sheffield Hallam University
Consuming Sport: Fans, Sport and Culture
Publisher: Routledge, an imprint of Taylor & Francis Books Ltd
ISBN: 0415288916
Professor Ellis Cashmore
Professor of Culture, Media and Sport, Staffordshire University
Making Sense of Sport
Publisher: Routledge, an imprint of Taylor & Francis Books Ltd
ISBN 0 415 34853 6
Professor Stefan Szymanski
Professor of Economics and Strategy, Tanaka Business School, Imperial College London
National Pastime: How Americans Play Baseball and the Rest of the World Plays Soccer
Stefan Szymanski and Andrew Zimbalist
Publisher: The Brookings Institution
ISBN: 0815782586
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