CETA 0913 - Sport and Performance, Sport as Performance

Institution:

Brown University

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Description:

Sporting events and sports culture have long been a place where mass happenings are made real through performance, where bodies are brought together in competition while crowds gather to cheer their heroes and condemn their villains. This course uses a performance studies approach to critically inquire behind these gathered bodies and examine sport as a site for national imaginings, cultural encounters, and the performance of race and gender. Live sporting events and their histories, their relationships with the media and with economic structures will be used to trace the ways in which sport as performance and spectacle have been used as a site for restriction and colonization, but also form a potent site for challenging widely held beliefs and displaying cultural identity.

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Institution Website:

www.brown.edu

Phone Number:

(401) 863-1000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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