Sport Stars (eBook, ePUB)

The Cultural Politics of Sporting Celebrity
Redaktion: Andrews, David L.; Jackson, Steven J.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In a culture obsessed with celebrity, sportmen and women are some of the highest profile figures. We are fascinated by sport stars' lifestyles, love lives, and earning power. Sport Stars investigates the nature of contemporary sporting celebrity, examining stars' often turbulent relationships with the media, and with the sporting establishment.
Through a series of case studies of sporting stars, including Diego Maradona, Michael Jordan, Venus Williams and David Beckham, contributors examine the cultural, political, economic and technological forces which combine to produce sporting celebrity, and consider the ways in which these most public of individuals inform and influence private experience.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. September 2002
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134598533
• Artikelnr.: 40464646

Autorenporträt

David L. Andrews is an Associate Professor of Sport and Cultural Studies in the Department of Kinesiology at the University of Maryland at College Park and a Senior Visiting Research Fellow at De Montfort University, Bedford. Steven J. Jackson is Senior Lecturer in Sport and Leisure Studies in the School of Physical Education at the University of Otago, New Zealand.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Michael Jordan: Corporate Sport and Postmodern
Celebrityhood Mary G. McDonald and David L. Andrews 2. Excursions into
Otherness: Understanding Dennis Rodman and the Limits of Subversive Agency
Melisse Lafrance and Genevieve Rail 3. Andre Agassi and Generation X:
Reading White Masculinity in 1990s America Kyle W. Kusz 4. America's New
Son: Tiger Woods and America's Multiculturalism Cheryl L. Cole and David L.
Andrews 5. From 'Child's play' to 'Party Crasher': Venus Williams, Racism
and Professional Women's Tennis Nancy E. Spencer 6. Postmodern Blackness
and the Celebrity Sports Star: Ian Wright, 'Race' and English Identity Ben
Carrington 7. Evil Genie or Pure Genius?: The (Im)moral Football and Public
Career of Paul 'Gazza' Gascoigne Richard Giulianotti and Michael Gerrard 8.
Punishment, Redemption and Celebration in the Popular Press: The Case of
David Beckham Garry Whannel 9. The Spectacle of a Heroic Life: The Case of
Diego Maradona Eduardo P. Archetti 10. Gretzky Nation: Canada, Crisis and
Americanization Steven J. Jackson 11. Hideo Nomo: Pioneer or Defector?
Hajime Hirai 12. Global Hingis: Flexible Citizenship and the Transnational
Celebrity Mike Giardina 13. Nyandika Maiyoro and Kipchoge Keino:
Transgression, Colonial Rhetoric and the Postcolonial Athlete John Bale 14.
Imran Khan: The Road from Cricket to Politics Peter Corrigan 15. Brian
Lara: (Con)testing the Caribbean Imagination Hilary Beckles 16. Cathy
Freeman: The Quest for Australian Identity Toni Bruce and Christopher J.
Hallinan