{"id":34492,"date":"2022-10-05T10:47:07","date_gmt":"2022-10-05T14:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/event\/crc-colloquium-charlotte-howell\/"},"modified":"2022-10-21T12:52:52","modified_gmt":"2022-10-21T16:52:52","slug":"crc-colloquium-charlotte-howell","status":"publish","type":"bu-event","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/event\/crc-colloquium-charlotte-howell\/","title":{"rendered":"The American Outlaws Are Our People: TV&#8217;s Upscale Visions of US Soccer Fans and Audiences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Room 209, 640 Commonwealth Ave.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Featuring Charlotte Howell, assistant professor, Department of Film and Television, College of Communication, Boston University, part of the Colloquium series from COM&#8217;s Communication Research Center.<\/p>\n<p><span>From the 1994 &#8220;denim kit&#8221;-wearing bad-boys of soccer US Men&#8217;s National Team and the 1999 record-breaking US Women&#8217;s National Team to the present angst over the 2022 World Cup and recently-resolved equal pay fight, US senior national soccer teams have provided the US television industry with a nationalistic sports spectacle every few years to draw in viewers who may not otherwise watch soccer regularly. While the Olympics and World Cups propel soccer&#8217;s TV ratings into the arena of the &#8220;big 4&#8221; men&#8217;s sports leagues (football, basketball, baseball, hockey), they further highlight the unique position the television industry has generally cultivated for soccer in the US: an upscale sport with an English-language audience that is more cosmopolitan, educated, an affluent than other televised sports. This presentation examines how television uses the American Outlaws supporters group rooting for US senior national teams at major tournaments to represent that upscale vision of the US soccer fan while also exemplifying the tension between that ideal viewer and the persistent sexist and white-supremacist norms of American sports television and its core viewers.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Room 209, 640 Commonwealth Ave. Featuring Charlotte Howell, assistant professor,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_event_starts":"1666902600","_editor_event_starts":"2022-10-27 15:30:00","_event_ends":"1666906200","_editor_event_ends":"2022-10-27T16:30:00","_url":"","_event_id":"272986","_online_event":false,"_featured_event":false,"_api_data":"{\"starts\":1666899000,\"ends\":-14400,\"summary\":\"CRC Colloquium: Charlotte Howell\",\"location\":\"Room 209, 640 Commonwealth Ave.\",\"id\":272986,\"oid\":null,\"url\":\"\",\"allday\":null,\"topics\":\"379\",\"recurs\":null,\"when\":\"3:30 pm on Thursday, October 27, 2022\",\"description\":\"Featuring Charlotte Howell, assistant professor, Department of Film and Television, College of Communication, Boston University.rn\",\"start_date\":\"2022-10-27\",\"end_date\":\"\",\"start_time\":\"19:30:00\",\"end_time\":\"\",\"priority\":\"0\",\"status\":\"0\",\"class\":\"0\",\"owner\":\"bglass\",\"created_on\":\"2022-10-05 14:45:51\",\"modified_by\":\"bglass\",\"modified_on\":\"2022-10-05 14:45:52\",\"timezone\":\"US\/Eastern\",\"short_summary\":\"\",\"published\":\"1\",\"short_title\":\"\"}"},"interest":[],"discipline-type":[],"event-topic":[1412],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-event\/34492"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/bu-event"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"interest","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/interest?post=34492"},{"taxonomy":"discipline-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/discipline-type?post=34492"},{"taxonomy":"event-topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event-topic?post=34492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}