In this article, we examine whether modes of representation that disrupt and defamiliarize the naturalized understandings fans share about the legitimacy and necessity of spectacular violence and sacrifice in sport can have the potential to reframe fan attitudes and investments. We explore the social cognitive and attitudinal shift towards traumatic brain injury (TBI) and injury more broadly in American football of first year students with a stated investment in the spectacle of high-performance sports after viewing Josh Begley’s 2018 short film Concussion Protocol. By comparing the responses of students at the beginning of the semester to their responses immediately after viewing the film, this project reveals how placing fans of sport in a face-to-face relationship with athletic laborers can challenge preexisting assumptions about normalized violence in sport, ultimately effectuating a potentially new and more humane attitude to athletic spectatorship.

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陌生化脑震荡：体育迷、受伤和潜在的态度转变


在本文中，我们研究了破坏和陌生化球迷对体育运动中壮观的暴力和牺牲的合法性和必要性的自然理解的代表模式是否有可能重塑球迷的态度和投资。在观看了 Josh Begley 2018 年的短片《脑震荡协议》后，我们探讨了一年级学生在美式橄榄球中更广泛地向创伤性脑损伤 （TBI） 和损伤的社会认知和态度转变，并表示对高性能运动的奇观进行了投资。通过将学生在学期开始时的反应与他们观看电影后立即的反应进行比较，该项目揭示了让体育迷与体育工作者面对面的关系如何挑战先前存在的关于体育运动中正常化暴力的假设，最终对体育观众产生一种潜在的新的、更人道的态度。