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1. Celebrity Culture

   Second Edition

   By Ellis Cashmore

   Over the past few decades, the public obsession with celebrity has exploded. There has also been a huge growth in the number of college and university courses and degrees on celebrity studies and celebrity journalism. Ellis Cashmore’s Celebrity/Culture was among the first textbooks to address this...

   To Be Published September 30th 2013 by Routledge
2. Making Sense of Sports

   5th Edition

   By Ellis Cashmore, Ellis Cashmore

   Updated, revised and enhanced with new features, the fifth edition of Making Sense of Sports is the biggest and strongest yet. Ellis Cashmore's unique multidisciplinary approach to the study of sports remains the only introduction to combine anthropology, biology, economics, history, philosophy,...

   Published September 9th 2010 by Routledge
3. Sport and Exercise Psychology: The Key Concepts

   2nd Edition

   By Ellis Cashmore

   Series: Routledge Key Guides

   Now including exercise psychology terms for the first time in its second edition, Sport and Exercise Psychology: The Key Concepts offers a highly accessible introduction to this fascinating subject, its central theories and state-of-the-art research. Over 300 alphabetically-ordered entries...

   Published May 22nd 2008 by Routledge
4. Encyclopedia of Race and Ethnic Studies

   Edited by Ellis Cashmore

   This is the paperback edition of a globally recognized sourcebook on race and ethnic relations. It has been assembled by a world-class team of international scholars led by Ellis Cashmore to provide an authoritative, single-volume reference work on all aspects of race and ethnic studies. From...

   Published February 6th 2008 by Routledge
5. Celebrity Culture

   By Ellis Cashmore

   In this fascinating and topical beginners guide, Ellis Cashmore explores the intriguing issue of celebrity culture: its origins, its meaning and its global influence. Covering such varied perspectives as fame addiction, the ‘celebrification’ of politics and celebrity fatigue, Cashmore analyzes the...

   Published August 9th 2006 by Routledge
6. Sports Culture

   An A-Z Guide

   By Ellis Cashmore

   We live in a culture in which sports play an important role. The growth in broadcasting, merchandising, iconography and the commercialization of sports has led to an increasing interest in the emerging field of sports culture.This book examines individual issues, people, artefacts, events and...

   Published December 18th 2002 by Routledge
7. Sport and Exercise Psychology: The Key Concepts

   By Ellis Cashmore

   Series: Routledge Key Guides

   Psychology is an integral element of sport today, from the applied techniques of coaches and athletes, to the socio-psychological behaviour of sport fans. Sport and Exercise Psychology: The Key Concepts offers an introductory guide to the vocabulary of sport psychology, to its central theories and...

   Published May 8th 2002 by Routledge
8. And There Was Television

   By Professor Ellis Cashmore, Ellis Cashmore

   Why all the fuss over television? It is blamed for an assortment of evils, including violence, shortened attention spans, the decline of literacy and political indoctrination. In this scintillating and approachable book, Ellis Cashmore weighs up the theories and evidence. He argues that much of the...

   Published April 11th 2002 by Routledge
9. Making Sense of Sports

   3rd Edition

   By Ellis Cashmore

   Sports are more important than ever socially, economically and culturally. As well as embodying cherished values and ideals, sports now reflect many of the worries of wider society. Drugs, racism, corruption and violence are all now major concerns and our experience of sport is increasingly subject...

   Published January 3rd 2002 by Routledge
10. The Black Culture Industry

    By Ellis Cashmore

    Cashmore's controversial study argues that black culture has been converted into a commodity, usually in the interests of white owned corporations. Using detailed studies of the marketing of Motown, Michael Jackson and the Artist Formerly Known as Prince, Cashmore suggests that inflating the...

    Published June 25th 1997 by Routledge