US Imperialism, Sport, and “the Most Famous Soldier in the War”

摘要: This chapter focuses on both political economic and symbolic elements in Yanqui sport, keeping with the complexities of US imperialism. It applies new international division cultural labor (NICL) to professional sports bourgeois media utilizing a global pool audience modulate an oversupplied local market where players are too wealthy crowds poor permit restless drive growth that fuels frustrates capitalism. The then shifts ideological analysis, via case study how sport signifies within United States context nationalism imperial warfare, looking at circumstances surrounding life, death, legacy college National Football League (NFL) player military recruit Pat Tillman. Finally, offers realistic account polyvalent phenomenon some valuable tools for engaging dismantling practice.