Sport, spectacle, and NASCAR nation [electronic resource] : consumption and the cultural politics of neoliberalism / Joshua I. Newman and Michael D. Giardina.

By: Newman, Joshua I, 1976-Contributor(s): Giardina, Michael D, 1976- | ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextSeries: Education, politics, and public lifePublication details: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011Edition: 1st edDescription: xiii, 288 p. : illSubject(s): NASCAR (Association) | Stock car racing -- Social aspects -- United States | Stock car racing -- Political aspects -- United StatesGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 796.720973 LOC classification: GV1029.9.S74 | N48 2011Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: -- Why NASCAR? Why Now? * Sporting Automobility * The Road and Serfdom * Consuming Stockcar Bodies * The "Southernization" of Sporting America * Racing for Jesus * Militarizing NASCAR Nation * The Limits to NASCAR Nation * Coda: On Recession and Secession.
Summary: "Sport, Spectacle, and NASCAR Nation critically interrogates stockcar racing's ascendance into the upper-echelon of the North American sporting popular. While most contributions to the public discourse gloss over NASCAR's exclusively white racial identity politics, its underlying patriarchal gender politics, its overtly conservative political commitment, its hyper-Christian orthodoxy, and its omnipresent commercialism, this book connects the dots and critically analyzes the problematic nature of this non-natural, strategically-orchestrated sporting spectacle"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: -- Why NASCAR? Why Now? * Sporting Automobility * The Road and Serfdom * Consuming Stockcar Bodies * The "Southernization" of Sporting America * Racing for Jesus * Militarizing NASCAR Nation * The Limits to NASCAR Nation * Coda: On Recession and Secession.

"Sport, Spectacle, and NASCAR Nation critically interrogates stockcar racing's ascendance into the upper-echelon of the North American sporting popular. While most contributions to the public discourse gloss over NASCAR's exclusively white racial identity politics, its underlying patriarchal gender politics, its overtly conservative political commitment, its hyper-Christian orthodoxy, and its omnipresent commercialism, this book connects the dots and critically analyzes the problematic nature of this non-natural, strategically-orchestrated sporting spectacle"-- Provided by publisher.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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