Friday Night Lights

2013 ◽  
pp. 149-154
Author(s):  
Jill Dolan
Keyword(s):  
Night Lights ◽  
Friday Night

Southern Realism

2020 ◽  
pp. 77-98
Author(s):  
Charlotte E. Howell
Keyword(s):  
American South ◽  
Television Drama ◽  
Southern Culture ◽  
Television Production ◽  
Cultural Specificity ◽  
Christian Culture ◽  
The American South ◽  
Night Lights ◽  
Characteristic Part ◽  
Friday Night

Friday Night Lights (NBC, 2006–2011) and Rectify (SundanceTV, 2013–2016) exemplified containing Christianity’s middlebrow appeal through displacement onto the cultural specificity of a realistically portrayed American South within a quality television drama. These two shows represent Christianity as both the dominant faith of their characters and as a characteristic part of Southern culture. Creatives used the milieu of an “authentic” American South to shift religion away from themselves and their quality-audience expectations, maintaining acceptability within the dominant non-Christian culture of television production. This displacement safely contained religion within the creatives’ production culture, allowing them to acknowledge Christianity’s religious content, but only within the peculiar particularity of the American South.

Football Town under Friday Night Lights

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Oriard
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Local Community ◽  
High School Football ◽  
National Media ◽  
History Of ◽  
Popular Magazines ◽  
Night Lights ◽  
Friday Night

This chapter traces the history of two competing views about the role of high school football in American communities: the “Football Town” and the “Friday Night Lights syndrome.” “Friday Night Lights” was named after H. G. Bissinger's 1990 book Friday Night Lights, a journalistic account of football at Permian High School in Odessa, Texas. “Football Town” originated from a series of portraits in popular magazines in the 1940s and 1950s. The chapter first provides a background on interscholastic football before discussing how the high school football game's place in the local community began to take on larger meanings when the national media began paying attention to it in the late 1930s.

scholarly journals “Clear Eyes, Full Hearts, Can’t Lose”: Friday Night Lights and Victorian Fictions of Provincial Life

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy M. King
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
Television Series ◽  
High School Football ◽  
Class Mobility ◽  
Football Team ◽  
Night Lights ◽  
Friday Night ◽  
The U.S

Friday Night Lights, the 2006-2011 television series about a Texas high school football team, owes a debt to readers of Victorian fictions of everyday life and provincial fiction. Habituated to the quotidian, readers of Victorian fictions of provincial life are arguably the best equipped for understanding the critically-acclaimed television series, for in it, like the fiction that precedes it, hardly anything of moment happens. Plot and telos are hardly the point; the series locates its energies in the stuff of everyday life rather than in the logic of suspense. Recent work on the provincial novel helps us understand the politics of FNL in a way that goes beyond its own explicit themes of race, class mobility, and education. That both the Democratic and Republican candidates for the U.S. presidency in 2012 used the fictional team’s mantra—“Clear Eyes, Full Heart, Can’t Lose”—suggests the extent to which the ideas of the show tapped into a politics about nation. Paradoxically, the show’s deliberately provincial scope allowed it symbolically to unify the nation.

Are Students' Goals, Grades and Fights Influenced by Friday Night Lights?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vu Nguyen Doan ◽  
Yu-Wei Luke Chu ◽  
Harold E. Cuffe
Keyword(s):  
Night Lights ◽  
Friday Night

Making the Familiar Strange: Writing Critical Sports Narratives

1992 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas E. Foley
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Cultural Practice ◽  
Scientific Realist ◽  
Narrative Style ◽  
Philosophical Basis ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Night Lights ◽  
Friday Night

Ethnographies of sports are generally thought to be critical if they employ a theoretical perspective that challenges conventional, mainstream views of sports. This paper contends that what makes sports ethnographies critical also depends on the narrative devices used to make such a familiar cultural practice seem strange. Various writings of postmodern ethnographers are reviewed to suggest some promising narrative experimentation that breaks with the earlier scientific realist narrative style. Some elements of a postpositivist definition of science and interpretation are also presented as the philosophical basis of these recent experimentations with narratives. Finally, the author’s own attempt to write a more experimental critical sports narrative on Texas football is contrasted to journalist H.G. Bissinger’s best-seller, Friday Night Lights. The strengths and limits of Bissinger’s “dramatic recall” narrative for creating a more reflexive text are considered. The paper concludes with some provisional suggestions for altering scientific realist narratives with what Van Maanen calls a more impressionist narrative style.

Friday Night Lights

1991 ◽  
Vol 75 (532) ◽  
pp. 106-107 ◽  
Author(s):  
H.G. Bissinger
Keyword(s):  
Night Lights ◽  
Friday Night
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