Garry Whannel

Media Sport Stars

Masculinities and Moralities

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Media Sport Stars" considers how masculinity and male identity are represented through images of sport and sport stars. From the pre-radio era to today's specialist TV channels, newspaper supplements and websites, Gary Whannel traces the growing cultural importance of sport and sportmen, showing how the very practices of sport are still bound up with the production of masculinities. Focusing on figures like Muhammad Ali and David Beckham, Whannel shows how growing media coverage has helped produce a sporting system, and examines how modern celebrity addresses the issues of race and nation, performance and identity, morality and violence.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. November 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 238mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9780415170383
• ISBN-10: 0415170389
• Artikelnr.: 21574957

Autorenporträt

Garry Whannel

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction
Part 1 The tales they tell of men ...
Chapter 2 Discourses of crisis in masculinity
Chapter 3 The development of media sport
Chapter 4 Heroes and stars
Chapter 5 Narrativity and biography
Chapter 6 Sporting masculinities
Part 2 From sporting print to satellite ...
Chapter 7 The birth of the sport star
Chapter 8 Good boys
Chapter 9 Pretty boys, the 1960s and pop culture
Chapter 10 Bad boys and the work ethic
Part 3 The restless vortex of celebrity
Chapter 11 Celebration, punishment, redemption and self-discipline
Chapter 12 Moralities, masculinities and violence
Chapter 13 Identities
Chapter 14 Performances, appearances, identities and postmodernities
Chapter 15 Vortextuality and conspicuous consumption
Chapter 16 Conclusion