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Emotion Work for Merriwell and Billy Clyde: Challenging American Football’s Two-Tiered Gender System on Friday Night Lights
- Journal of Sports Media
- University of Nebraska Press
- Volume 9, Number 1, Spring 2014
- pp. 123-144
- 10.1353/jsm.2014.0004
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This article considers the construction of significant cultural themes in the television series Friday Night Lights (fnl ) that represent a rather remarkable evolution in the nature of meaning making in media representations of American football. fnl advances a dominant frame that challenges the game’s established tendencies to provide a key enabling mechanism through which limited roles for women have been justified by “a two-tiered gender system with men on top.”