Consuming Sport is the first book to explicitly and comprehensively address how sport is experienced and engaged with in the everyday lives, social networks, and media, and consumer patterns of its followers.

Shows how the psychoanalytic concept of containment and the child development concept of reciprocity can be used together to inform clinical work with young children and their families. Using extracts of mother/child interactions, this book explores the relationship between these concepts, and shows how they underpin the quality of an attachment.

This anthology addresses the salient aesthetic, ideological and economic determinants of independent American cinema over the past three decades

This book offers a biographical guide to the modern literary scene. It is fully cross-referenced and containing guides to further reading.