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Table of contents
1. Introduction
2. Popular explanations: or what it takes to be a hooligan
3. The hooligan subculture
3.1. From Chicago to Birmingham: an approach to the subcultural concepts
3.2. The passion and the fashion: the casuals and the meaning of style
3.3. Social composition of the hooligan formations
3.3.1. A pure working-class domain?
3.3.2. A 'men only' business
4. The English disease: origin, caesura and outlook
4.1. Hooliganism's heyday
4.2. Heysel and Hillsborough as turning points for English football fan culture
4.3. The English disease: still infectious after all this time?
5. Fictional representation of a subculture in 'Green Street Hooligans' and 'Awaydays'
5.1. Plot Synopsis 'Green Street Hooligans'
5.2. Plot Synopsis 'Awaydays'
5.3. Subcultural traces in hooligan fiction: analyses of selected scenes
5.3.1. Against the mainstream and a sense of belonging
5.3.2. The issue of class in 'Green Street Hooligans'
5.3.3. The hierarchy pyramid
5.3.4. 'Awaydays' and the meaning of space and style
5.3.5. A tragic solution
6. Conclusion
- Quote paper
- Philip Sell (Author), 2020, The English Disease. The Transformation of a Subculture, Munich, GRIN Verlag, https://www.grin.com/document/994838
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