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La obra y el pensamiento deportivo de Manuel Vázquez Montalbán (1960-2003). [The work and sports thought of Manuel Vázquez Montalbán (1960-2003)].

2016; Ramón Cantó Alcaraz; Volume: 12; Issue: 45 Linguagem: Inglês

10.5232/ricyde2016.04501

1885-3137

Jordi Osúa, Javier Olivera,

Sports, Gender, and Society

The aim of this study consists on compiling the texts devoted to sport in the prolific career of Manuel Vázquez Montalbán (1960Montalbán ( -2003)), to value the existence of a 'montalbanian' sport work and to delimit the main discussed themes to unravel the basis of his sports thought.Despite the importance of his works regarding the analysis of sport as a popular cultural element and as a powerful tool to decipher social processes, academic studies devoted to research on this dimension of his works and thought are scarce.The compiling of his writings on sports is carried out from the systematic analysis of his catalogued articles in previous writings and of his published literary works.His main lines of sport thought are established in thematic categories from the calculation of the frequency in publication on the whole of sport texts.The obtained results confirm the existence of an original sport work made up of 700 texts, mostly journalistic articles.The most important thematic categories are related to the social, political, media and economical analysis of sport; the Marxist criticism; the political and social significance of Barça; or the sport patriotism.This study reveals the discovery of 178 non previously catalogued sport articles and the delimitation of the 'montalbanian' sport thought around three aspects: political and social connotations of Spanish football, the political and economical distortion of sport and the recognition of FC Barcelona symbolism.