TY - CHAP
T1 - Sports Fiction
T2 - Critical and Empirical Perspectives
AU - Cummins, R. Glenn
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2006 by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
PY - 2009/1/1
Y1 - 2009/1/1
N2 - In the fall of 2003, ESPN premiered its first entry in the realm of scripted, fictional television programming, Playmakers. The program chronicled, often with explicit detail, the trials and tribulations of a fictional pro football team, the Cougars. Dubbed a “macho soap opera” (Flynn, 2004, p. 68), plot lines revolved around everything from murder, to drug abuse, to domestic violence, to homosexuality, to abortion. The aging veteran, the raw rookie, the greedy owner-characters on the program embodied just about every conceivable sports stereotype.
AB - In the fall of 2003, ESPN premiered its first entry in the realm of scripted, fictional television programming, Playmakers. The program chronicled, often with explicit detail, the trials and tribulations of a fictional pro football team, the Cougars. Dubbed a “macho soap opera” (Flynn, 2004, p. 68), plot lines revolved around everything from murder, to drug abuse, to domestic violence, to homosexuality, to abortion. The aging veteran, the raw rookie, the greedy owner-characters on the program embodied just about every conceivable sports stereotype.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85077561183&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.4324/9780203873670-18
DO - 10.4324/9780203873670-18
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85077561183
SP - 198
EP - 218
BT - Handbook of Sports and Media
PB - Taylor and Francis
ER -