Terra ludus : a novel about media, gender and sport

• 作者： Bruce, Toni, author.
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• 其他題名：
  • Social fictions series
• 出版： Rotterdam : SensePublishers :Imprint: SensePublishers
• 叢書名： Social fictions series
• 主題： Mass media and sports--Fiction. , Sex discrimination in sports--Fiction. , Sports journalism--Fiction. , Women athletes--Fiction. , Education. , Education, general.
• ISBN： 9789463007702 (electronic bk.) 、 9789463007689 (paperback) 、 9789463007696 (hardback)
• FIND@SFXID: CGU
• 資料類型: 電子書
• 內容註: Preface -- Acknowledgements -- End of an Era -- Real Life? -- Friends -- Speaking Out -- Vid World -- The Meeting -- Back to Normality? -- Eat Shit and Die -- Threat -- Getting Ready -- Back on the Court -- Training -- The Announcement -- PR -- Warning -- Authenticity -- Downtime -- More Support -- Reactions -- No Rest for the Wicked -- Terra Australia -- Back to Terra Ludus -- The Game -- Aftermath -- Travelling -- Down the Runway -- Change -- Going Home -- Coming Back -- Recovery? -- It's All Alright -- The Final -- Suggested Classroom and Book Club Use -- Discussion or Homework Questions -- Creative Writing Assignments -- Performance Activities -- About the Author.
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• 摘要註: Set in the near future, Terra Ludus follows a group of friends as their lives are turned upside down by the downstream effects of the actions of the protagonist, Daniela Bartoli. Five years after the professional International Women's Basketball League is unceremoniously dumped by its parent men's organization, Daniela is working in Los Angeles as a freelance journalist and playing regular weekend pick-up games with her friends Mike, Constantin, Dominic and Simeon. Her relatively simple life changes almost overnight after her vlog, challenging a powerful media corporation to step up and broadcast women's basketball, goes viral. The publicity sets off a chain reaction that brings the sport back into international prominence and sucks Daniela into a vortex of media and public visibility that leads her to question what is really important. In an imagined context where all professional sport takes place in a single country - something like a permanent Olympic Games - we follow a cast of characters with very different viewpoints on a roller-coaster, year-long, journey as they adjust to the new women's league. Although fictional, Terra Ludus is grounded in decades of researching, theorizing, teaching and writing about women's sport and media representation. Terra Ludus can be read entirely for pleasure or used as supplemental reading in courses in sport, media, gender, communication, journalism, sociology, creative writing, performance, physical education and cultural studies. "Toni Bruce turns her keen literary eye on the spectacular failure of sport studies scholars and activists to convince mainstream sports media to increase coverage of women's sport. Her gripping story turns this narrative on its head, and shows all of us how things could be different. Terra Ludus shows us how to move forward. This is the power of storytelling." Norman K. Denzin, Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign "Using popular culture pedagogically to think about popular culture a
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