The Passion of the Tebow: Sports Media and Heroic Language in the Tragic Frame
Publication type: Journal Article
Publication date: 2013-03-01
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SJR: 0.463
CiteScore: 2.2
Impact factor: 1.5
ISSN: 15295036, 14795809
Communication
Abstract
As one of the most widely covered athletes of recent years, Tim Tebow is both beloved and resented. In this essay, I critique sports media coverage of Tebow to demonstrate how tragic framing constitutes this opposition. By emphasizing his character both as a football leader and a Christian missionary, sports media frame Tebow in transcendental terms, the consequence of which is a discourse of absolutism and symbolic division. What is required, therefore, is a turn to Kenneth Burke's notion of the comic frame, a position of humility that is well-suited to the agonistic ethos of commercial sport.
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Butterworth M. L. The Passion of the Tebow: Sports Media and Heroic Language in the Tragic Frame // Critical Studies in Media Communication. 2013. Vol. 30. No. 1. pp. 17-33.
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Butterworth M. L. The Passion of the Tebow: Sports Media and Heroic Language in the Tragic Frame // Critical Studies in Media Communication. 2013. Vol. 30. No. 1. pp. 17-33.
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TY - JOUR
DO - 10.1080/15295036.2012.701010
UR - https://doi.org/10.1080/15295036.2012.701010
TI - The Passion of the Tebow: Sports Media and Heroic Language in the Tragic Frame
T2 - Critical Studies in Media Communication
AU - Butterworth, Michael L.
PY - 2013
DA - 2013/03/01
PB - Taylor & Francis
SP - 17-33
IS - 1
VL - 30
SN - 1529-5036
SN - 1479-5809
ER -
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@article{2013_Butterworth,
author = {Michael L. Butterworth},
title = {The Passion of the Tebow: Sports Media and Heroic Language in the Tragic Frame},
journal = {Critical Studies in Media Communication},
year = {2013},
volume = {30},
publisher = {Taylor & Francis},
month = {mar},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1080/15295036.2012.701010},
number = {1},
pages = {17--33},
doi = {10.1080/15295036.2012.701010}
}
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Butterworth, Michael L.. “The Passion of the Tebow: Sports Media and Heroic Language in the Tragic Frame.” Critical Studies in Media Communication, vol. 30, no. 1, Mar. 2013, pp. 17-33. https://doi.org/10.1080/15295036.2012.701010.