Tag: Steph Doehler
Engaging and well researched analysis of sport and power in American culture
In the US, sports are sold as an oasis of community to a nation deeply divided. In his 2019 book The Power of Sports: Media and Spectacle in American Culture (New York University Press), Michael Serazio, a member of the Department of Communication at Boston College and an award-winning journalist, maps and critiques the cultural production of today’s lucrative, ubiquitous sports landscape. Our reviewer is Steph Doehler, and she finds his work both readable and important.
