Reproduction of the female image and nationalism in Taiwanese sport documentaries

Tseng, Yu-Hsien

doi:10.1177/1012690214568732

Cited by 10 publications

(4 citation statements)

References 25 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…An established body of research suggests that the majority of media attention given to women’s sports at the Olympics was devoted to gender-appropriate sports such as gymnastics, also serving as a type of gender-biased framing strategy (Billings et al, 2014; Yu, 2009). Moreover, networks usually highlighted female athletes’ fragility and attractiveness in the Olympic broadcast dialogue, which was viewed as a common frame undermining sportswomen’s athletic achievements (MacArthur, Angelini, Billings, & Smith, 2016; Tseng, 2015).…”

Section: Related Literaturementioning

confidence: 99%

When Women Fail to “Hold Up More Than Half the Sky”

Billings

Fan

2017

Communication & Sport

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Communist beliefs on gender equality and Chinese female athletes’ consistent ability to win national glory have lead to female athletes in Chinese sports media being primarily portrayed as legitimate athletes akin to levels of male athletes. This study examines such assumptions within Chinese Central Television’s (CCTV) 2016 Olympic telecast of gymnastics, a sport in which Chinese female athletes failed to attain national expectations, exploring potential variations of gendered frames in Chinese sports culture. A full examination of 100% (over 14 hr) of CCTV’s broadcast coverage revealed that female athletes received less media attention in terms of clock time and name mentions. Regarding word-by-word commentary ascribed to the gymnasts, CCTV employees significantly devoted more descriptors related to personality and physicality to female athletes, indicating a noticeable deviation from the Chinese traditional gendered frame of depicting female athletes as tenacious fighters with their nonsport-related aspects rarely covered. Implications for the findings are offered.

show abstract

Section: Related Literaturementioning

confidence: 99%

When Women Fail to “Hold Up More Than Half the Sky”

Billings

Fan

2017

Communication & Sport

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…The way that both of these things can be true is if women are not a significant consideration in the formation of national identity. Indeed, numerous studies illustrate the gendered disparity in the role of sports for harnessing patriotism and representing national identity, and this is especially true with respect to visual representations in the media of national heroes (Coche and Tuggle, 2016;Godoy-Pressland, 2014;Godoy-Pressland and Griggs, 2014;Sherry et al, 2016;Tseng, 2016). This parliamentary discussion highlights hockey's place in creating and sustaining national identity in Canada.…”

Section: Ice Hockey and Identitymentioning

confidence: 94%

Sport as Culture: Social class, styles of cultural consumption, and sports engagement in Canada

Gemar¹

2021

Preprint

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The consumption of culture has often been ascribed the power to reflect and reproduce social inequalities. However, most work in this area has focused upon music and the arts. Sport is an important element of culture that can and should be studied in a similar fashion as others (Bourdieu, 1978). This thesis thus seeks to bring the theoretical frameworks and analytical tools of sociologies of culture further into the realm of sport. Substantively, this thesis provides an updated and comprehensive re-examining of the relationship between direct sports participation and social stratification in the relatively unexplored national context of Canada. I also innovatively provide an examination of the relationship between social stratification and professional sports consumption. Finally, this thesis fills a gap in the literature by analysing where the consumption of sport fits within broader cultural lifestyles. For these investigations, I use large-scale survey data and various statistical methods to test the foundational theories of Pierre Bourdieu, the ‘omnivore’ thesis, and individualisation arguments of social action to explain these patterns. The findings show direct sports participation relying primarily on dispositions towards the body which are stratified by education and income, especially for the most elite sports. They also show the two most selective omnivorous profiles for professional sport, rather than the most omnivorous, with the highest levels of education and income. This thesis thus sheds doubt on the omnivore thesis within sport, while also showing elements of individualisation regarding age and sex differentiation in consumption. Sports consumption in Canada thus cuts across all three theories of the relation between socio-economic position and sport. These more delimitated consumption profiles contrast with the general adherence to the omnivore thesis within broader cultural lifestyles. This therefore suggests that sport may be a cultural domain where general omnivores practise more distinctive consumption.

show abstract

“…El documental, asimismo, se ha hecho eco de la realidad de las mujeres dentro del mundo del deporte. Aunque la literatura científica no es muy extensa al respecto, hallamos investigaciones que van desde la inequidad de género en el tratamiento general del deporte en el documental (Abrams, 2013) hasta el análisis del reflejo audiovisual de la situación de las deportistas taiwanesas (Tseng, 2016), pasando por el estudio de caso de la serie de ESPN Nine for IX Series (Antunovic y Linden, 2020) o la plasmación del empoderamiento femenino a través de la práctica deportiva (Heinecken, 2021).…”

Section: El Reflejo De Las Mujeres En El Documental Deportivounclassified

Análisis de los documentales deportivos en Netflix, Amazon Prime y HBO en España desde una perspectiva de género

2023

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Las representaciones mediáticas de las mujeres han sido objeto de estudio por su influencia sobre los estereotipos de género. Ante la importancia que han adquirido las plataformas de vídeo bajo demanda, este trabajo analiza los documentales deportivos que conforman el catálogo en España de Netflix, Amazon Prime Video y HBO desde una perspectiva de género. Los resultados indican que en estas producciones la presencia de las mujeres es minoritaria tanto delante como detrás de las cámaras. Apenas el 13,4 % de ellos están protagonizados por mujeres y, de los integrantes de los equipos creativos y directivos que se reflejan en las fichas técnicas de las producciones, únicamente un 9,2% del total son mujeres. Se constata que, en los casos en los que hay mujeres en el equipo directivo y/o creativo, la participación de las mismas en las producciones se incrementa, e igualmente están presentes en todos los proyectos que cuentan con protagonismo femenino. Es relevante resaltar que en más de la mitad de los títulos las fichas técnicas no recogen la composición de los equipos, lo que se traduce en una invisibilización de estos oficios en general y de las mujeres que los desarrollan en particular, ya que no se reconoce su autoría.

show abstract

Reproduction of the female image and nationalism in Taiwanese sport documentaries

Cited by 10 publications

References 25 publications

When Women Fail to “Hold Up More Than Half the Sky”

When Women Fail to “Hold Up More Than Half the Sky”

Sport as Culture: Social class, styles of cultural consumption, and sports engagement in Canada

Análisis de los documentales deportivos en Netflix, Amazon Prime y HBO en España desde una perspectiva de género

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About