Yakich Professor Mark (Loyola University New Orleans Usa) - Football - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: Object Lessons is a series of short beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. When is the beautiful game at its most beautiful? How does football function as a lens through which so many view their daily lives? What's right in front of fans that they never see? Football celebrates and scrutinizes the world's most popular sport from top - tier professionals to children just learning the game. As an American who began playing football in the 1970s as it gained a foothold in the States Mark Yakich reflects on his own experiences alongside the sport's social and political implications its narrative and documentary depictions and its linguistic idiosyncrasies. Illustrating how football can be at once absolutely vital and "only a game " this book will be surprising and insightful for the casual and diehard fan alike. Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.
Title: Football
Author(s): Yakich Professor Mark (Loyola University New Orleans Usa)
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Barcode: 9781501367069
Pages: 160 Pages, 6 Bw Illus
Publication Date: 1/13/2022
Series: Object Lessons
Category: Football (Soccer, Association Football)