1. Genre Content: Kind: In North America and Britain:
The content developed in relationship to previous media forms:
The five main forms were:
News (Newspaper/Newsreel/Radio/AD)
Theatrical forms: Stage (Opera, variety, vaudeville, drama, musical, comedy, romance); Street (café, street performers, circus, cabaret)
Film (drama, romance, comedy, newsreel)
Radio (most of the early TV shows were from Radio)
Popular serials: Comic books/Westerns/Mystery/Cartoons
WHICH AFFECT THE DEVELOPMENT OF GENRES OF SPORTS? HOW? FOR EXAMPLE
IS BASEBALL AS A GAME AFFECTED BY RADIO? AND VISA VERSA?

2. SPORTS & THEATER
ONE OF THE OLDEST THEATRICAL FORMS & AND MOST ENDURING ARCHITECHTURAL STAGES

3. SPORTS & THEATER Heather Levi’s article on Sports and Melodrama:
Roland Barthes: Melodrama as a mythological symbolic structure whereby “ petite-bourgeois culture” is transformed into a universal.
SPORTS AS MELODRAMA, HEATHER LEVI

4. Genre Content: Kind: In North America and Britain:
The content developed in relationship to previous media forms:
The five main forms were:
News (Newspaper/Newsreel/Radio/AD)
Theatrical forms: Stage (Opera, variety, vaudeville, drama, musical, comedy, romance); Street (café, street performers, circus, cabaret)
Film (drama, romance, comedy, newsreel)
Radio (most of the early TV shows were from Radio)
Popular serials: Comic books/Westerns/Mystery/Cartoons
WHICH AFFECT THE DEVELOPMENT OF GENRES OF SPORTS? HOW? FOR EXAMPLE
IS BASEBALL AS A GAME AFFECTED BY RADIO? AND VISA VERSA?

5. SPORTS & THEATER
ONE OF THE OLDEST THEATRICAL FORMS & AND MOST ENDURING ARCHITECHTURAL STAGES

6. SPORTS & THEATER Heather Levi’s article on Sports and Melodrama:
Roland Barthes: Melodrama as a mythological symbolic structure whereby “ petite-bourgeois culture” is transformed into a universal.
SPORTS AS MELODRAMA, HEATHER LEVI