>I'm looking for journal articles and books on the sublimation of violence >in televised sports today, especially NFL Football, which I hope to compare >with the ritual display of violence in ancient Rome and preconquest >Mesoamerica. > >Any suggestions for research? Or direct responses to this topic? > Norbert Elias mentions ritualized sport violence briefly in his excellent *The civilizing process*. Well worth looking into is Jennings Bryants *Viewers Enjoyment of Televised Sports Violence* published in Wenner, Lawrence (ed) "Media, Sports & Society", Sage 1989. Enjoy! Ulf Ulf Dalquist Phone: +46 46 2229572 Dept. of Sociology Fax: +46 46 2224794 Box 114 221 00 Lund SWEDEN E-mail: [log in to unmask] http://www.soc.lu.se/~socuda/ "Only sick music makes money today." - Friedrich Nietzsche, 1888 ---- Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite http://www.tcf.ua.edu/screensite