Books by Andrew Billings

Media and the Coming Out of Gay Male Athletes in American Team Sports is the first of its kind, building upon the narratives of athletes and how their coming out experiences are shaped, transmitted and received through pervasive, powerful, albeit imperfect commercial media.

Examines the production, content, and potential effects of NBC's Olympic telecasts. This book outlines the inner workings of the NBC Olympic machine; and offers a survey analyses, which interrogates the extent to which NBC's storytelling process affects viewer beliefs about identity issues.