Sports advertising, cultural production and corporate nationalism at the global-local nexus: Branding the New Zealand All Blacks. Research Completed

Title

Sports advertising, cultural production and corporate nationalism at the global-local nexus: Branding the New Zealand All Blacks.

Lead Author

J Scherer and S J Jackson

Organisation(s)

University of Otago

Publication Year

2007

Publisher

Sport in Society, 10(2), 268-84.

Contacts

Abstract

This paper examines a case study of advertising agency Saatchi & Saatchi’s production of a television commercial for Adidas’s sponsorship of the All Blacks. Through interviews with representatives from Adidas, the New Zealand Rugby Union, and Saatchi & Saatchi, and analyses of industry documents, the commercial is located within a range of interrelated cultural, economic, technological and institutional conditions of production. The analysis reveals the complexity of the processes and practices through which the commercial was encoded with dominant cultural meanings and representations employed to communicate a complex televisual discourse of corporate nationalism and spectacle at the global-local nexus

Keywords:

culture, economics, identity, marketing and advertising, mass media, national identity, rugby, sports

Areas of Focus

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December 14, 2011