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- Title
A beer a minute in Texas football: Heavy drinking and the heroizing of the antihero in Friday Night Lights.
- Authors
Kerr, Robert L
- Abstract
This article applies a qualitative framing analysis to the first three seasons of the television series Friday Night Lights, focusing particularly on its incorporation of heavy drinking into narrative representations of the player whose character is most consistently central to the game of football as fictionally mediated in small-town Texas over the course of those three seasons. The analysis suggests that over the course of that period Friday Night Lights embeds nuanced social meanings in its framing of alcohol use by that player and other characters so as to associate it with multiple potential outcomes. Yet among those outcomes, the most dominant framing works to, in effect, reverse a progression through which media representations historically evolved from a heroic model toward an antihero model, with heavy drinking central to that narrative process of meaning-making in such messages.
- Subjects
FRIDAY Night Lights (TV program); ALCOHOL drinking; ALCOHOL &; athletes; ALCOHOLISM in sports; DRINKING behavior
- Publication
International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 2014, Vol 49, Issue 3/4, p451
- ISSN
1012-6902
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/1012690213495535