Women's Sport and Spectacle: Gendered Television Coverage and the Olympic Games [Hardcover]

Gina Daddario (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 30, 1998

Historically, the mass media have marginalized women's sports by devoting more coverage to men's sports and trying to appeal to a male audience. This volume analyzes the mass media's portrayal of women's sports. The Olympic Games are highlighted because they provide one of the few sports arenas where women's participation is heavily covered, promoted, and celebrated. The author suggests the media are recognizing the significance of female spectatorship and are attempting to respond to this growing audience by adopting some of the rhetorical and textual characteristics of soap opera and melodrama.

Editorial Reviews

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“Recommended for upper-division undergraduates and above in women's studies and mass communication, as well as professionals and practitioners in women's sports.”–Choice

“Her study is important for those working in this field because it brings together the author's ideas in a coherent and conveient form....[I]t presents a persuasive overview of the construction of a media event as a highly genderized narrative and raises exciting issues for research into future Olympic events.”–CBQ

“Gina Daddario...has produced a study of gendered television coverage of recent Olympic Games which is descriptively accurate, provocative and useful.”–TASP Newsletter

About the Author

GINA DADDARIO is Associate Professor of Mass Communication at Shenandoah University.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 184 pages
• Publisher: Praeger Publishers (May 30, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0275958566
• ISBN-13: 978-0275958565
• Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 5.7 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.1 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,334,082 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This review is from: Women's Sport and Spectacle: Gendered Television Coverage and the Olympic Games (Hardcover)

This is a very interesting and informative book. Gina Daddario is a very talented author and Im looking forward to any more books she publishes. I have recommended Women's Sport and Spectacle: Gendered Television Coverage and the Olympic Games to many of my students who have also enjoyed this wonderful book.