Footy Passions

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Footy Passions
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Joy Damousi
By (author) John Cash
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:208
Dimensions(mm): Height 210,Width 135
Category/GenreAustralian Rules football
ISBN/Barcode 9780868409573
ClassificationsDewey:796.336 796.336
Audience
General
Tertiary Education (US: College)

Publishing Details

Publisher NewSouth Publishing
Imprint NewSouth Publishing
Publication Date 1 August 2009
Publication Country Australia

Description

Salary caps, drunken escapades, sponsorship deals, and teams enjoying victory and surviving defeat dominate coverage of football. Meanwhile, fans agonise over line-ups, sweat over results, and look forward to the weekly football ritual. With each new season, having hibernated over the long, hot summer, the team emerges as if revived and raises hopes anew. The keen supporter is hooked back into a revived ritual of precarious pleasures that is played out within quasi-tribal cheer squads, intense friendship networks and, at least momentarily, united nuclear families. What hooks fans back in and why do they care so much? In this riveting and moving book, AFL fans talk about the emotions associated with the game and how it gives meaning to their lives, showing that football is more than just a game.

Author Biography

John Cash teaches in the department of philosophy, anthropology, and social inquiry at the University of Melbourne. Joy Damousi is the head of the school of historical studies at the University of Melbourne. She is the author of "Freud in the Antipodes" and "Living with the Aftermath."