Reading Cricket: The Culture Of Popular Sport In India: The contemporary game and its Confluences
Автор:Joe Christopher Год: 2012 Издание: [не указанo] Страниц: 120 ISBN: 3848429748 The book questions the relevance of cricketa??a a??hard cultural forma?? which was introduced during the colonial period, in the contemporary, post reform India. Through a discussion on sports films, and the Indian Premier Leaguea??the successful Twenty-twenty cricket league, the book locates cricket a midst the transformation in the imagination of the Indian nation. In India, post the initiation of the economic reforms, it demonstrates, cricket has become a convenient tool to market nationalism and consumerism and has been appropriated by business houses, the film industry and various governments. Such appropriation, the author argues resulted in cricket being constructed as the 'national' game of India. The book explores the effects that the confluence of cricket, popular film and 'paid' sports channels has had on Indian public sphere. It argues that cricketa??s affiliation with nationalism on the one hand and with global capital on the other, has facilitated the construction of a...
