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House Of Cards

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Книга С меки корици
Книга House Of Cards John Bloom
Код Либристо: 04728793
Издателство University of Minnesota Press, март 1997
Explores the connection between baseball card collecting and nostalgia among men of the baby boom."C... Цялото описание
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Explores the connection between baseball card collecting and nostalgia among men of the baby boom."Collectors often decried how money had ruined their hobby, making it hard for them to form meaningful friendships through their cards. Money, however, made the hobby not only profitable but also more serious, more instrumental, and therefore more manly. The same collectors who complained about greed often bragged in the same interview about the value of their cards. Yet money, in turn, made the hobby less akin to child's play and more like work: lonely, competitive, unfulfilling, and alienating".Baseball card collecting carries with it images of idealized boyhoods in the sprawling American suburbs of the postwar era. Yet in the past twenty years, it has grown from a pastime for children to a big-money pursuit taken seriously by adults. In A House of Cards, John Bloom uses interviews with collectors, dealers, and hobbyists as well as analysis of the baseball card industry and extensive firsthand observations to ask what this hobby tells us about nostalgia, work, play, masculinity, and race and gender relations among collectors.Beginning in the late 1970s and into the early 1990s, baseball card collecting grew into a business that embodied traditional masculine values such as competition, savvy, and industry. In A House of Cards, Bloom interviews collectors who reveal ambivalence about the hobby's emphasis on these values, often focusing on its alienating, lonely, and unfulfilling aspects. They express nostalgia for the ideal childhood world many middle-class white males experienced in the postwar years, when they perceived baseball card collecting as a form of play, not amoneymaking enterprise.Bloom links this nostalgia to anxieties about deindustrialization and the rise of the civil rights, feminist, and gay rights movements. He examines the gendered nature of swap meets as well as the views of masculinity expressed by the collectors: Is the pur

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Пълно заглавие House Of Cards
Автор John Bloom
Език Английски език
Корици Книга - С меки корици
Дата на издаване 1997
Брой страници 160
Баркод 9780816628711
ISBN 0816628718
Код Либристо 04728793
Издателство University of Minnesota Press
Тегло 234
Размери 222 x 150 x 9
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