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Eco, football fan and Sherlock Holmes of semiotics, blurs the boundaries between 'low' and 'high' cultures. Eco is a public intellectual engaged in reading the practices of everyday life. Football for him is a metaphor, a motif and a vehicle for interpreting the nuances and excesses of our human fascination with ideals - ideals that are mobilised by culture into obsessions with sports celebrities. Football is more than a game - it is a sign system that codes experience and gives it meaning on a number of levels. It allows the spectator to read life with the help of the media apparatuses that direct and control our viewing experiences. Umberto Eco and Football engages with Eco the cultural critic as he meanders through the signs of culture with a keen and witty eye for the forgotten details of life's great text, its serendipities, its misreadings.

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Author:   Peter Pericles Trifonas
Publisher:   Icon Books
Imprint:   Icon Books
Dimensions:   Width: 11.10cm , Height: 0.60cm , Length: 17.80cm
Weight:   0.070kg
ISBN:  

9781840462807

ISBN 10:   1840462809
Pages:   80
Publication Date:   03 September 2001
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Temporarily unavailable  
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Peter Pericles Trifonas writes on cultural studies, education, philosophy, ethics, literature and media. His books include The Ethics of Writing and Barthes and the Empire of Signs.

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