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This new volume will be available from LSA Publications in March 2004


LSA Publication No. 83

Leisure, Media and Visual Culture:
Representations and Contestations

ISBN: 0 906337 94 1

eds. Eileen Kennedy and Andrew Thornton

Non member ~ £31.50 +p/p
LSA Corporate (institutional) member ~ £26.00 +p/p
LSA Individual (private) member ~ £22.00 +p/p

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Companion volume:
Leisure, Space and Visual Culture: Practices and Meanings

LSA Publication No. 84, ISBN 0 906337 92 5


LSA No. 83 Contents

Editors' Introduction      Eileen Kennedy and Andrew Thornton

I      Theorising the Leisurely Gaze

"Rural Glamour": Reading Fashion in the New Zealand Context
          Hilary Radner

Bodies Laid Bare: Sport and the Spectacle of Masculinity
          Eileen Kennedy

'I Know Kung Fu': The Sporting Body in Film
          Andrew Thornton

The Flâneur and the Stalker
          Bran Nicol

II     Texts and Objects: Reading the Visual Culture of Leisure

Middle Class Pleasures and the Safe Dangers of Surf Bathing on the English South Coast 1921~1937
          Joan Ormrod

Tabloid Tourists: Celebrity, Consumption and Performance in British Television Holiday Programmes
          David Dunn

"Is This Shirt Loud?" Semiotics and the 'Language' of Replica Football Shirts
          Jack Fawbert

III    Making Meanings: the Creation and Interpretation of Leisure Audiences

The Contribution Of Reality Tv in the Critique and Creation of Lifestyle Choices
          Christine Fanthome

IT'S ONLY A GAMESHOW: Evolved Intelligences and Reality Culture
          Paul Woodward and Maxine Doyle

The Brick Man Versus The Angel Of The North: Public Art as Contested Space
          Doug Sandle

The Socialization of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Youth: Celebrity and Personally Known Role Models
          Arnold H. Grossman and Anthony R. D'augelli

Tipping The Velvet: Straight[Forward] Voyeurism? Problematising the Viewing of Lesbianism
          Jayne Caudwell