ISBN:
0203463544
,
0415221188
,
0415221196
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (x, 280 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Sport Stars : The Cultural Politics of Sporting Celebrity
DDC:
306.4/83
Keywords:
Sports Social aspects
;
Mass media and sports
;
Fame Social aspects
;
Celebrities
;
Athletes Social conditions
Abstract:
Sport Stars investigates the nature of contemporary sporting celebrity, examining stars' often turbulent relationship with the press, and exploring themes of identity, race, and spectacle
Description / Table of Contents:
SPORT STARS The cultural politics of sporting celebrity; Copyright; Contents; Notes on contributors; Introduction: sport celebrities, public culture, and private experience; 1 Michael Jordan: corporate sport and postmodern celebrityhood; 2 Excursions into otherness: understanding Dennis Rodman and the limits of subversive agency; 3 Andre Agassi and Generation X: reading white masculinity in 1990s' America; 4 America's new son: Tiger Woods and America's multiculturalism; 5 From "Child's play" to "Party crasher": Venus Williams, racism and professional women's tennis
Description / Table of Contents:
6 Postmodern blackness and the celebrity sports star: Ian Wright, "race" and English identity7 Evil genie or pure genius?: the (im)moral football and public career of Paul "Gazza" Gascoigne; 8 Punishment, redemption and celebration in the popular press: the case of David Beckham; 9 The spectacle of a heroic life: the case of Diego Maradona; 10 Gretzky Nation: Canada, crisis and Americanization; 11 Hideo Nomo: pioneer or defector?; 12 Global Hingis: flexible citizenship and the transnational celebrity
Description / Table of Contents:
13 Nyandika Maiyoro and Kipchoge Keino: transgression, colonial rhetoric and the postcolonial athlete14 Imran Khan: the road from cricket to politics; 15 Brian Lara: (con)testing the Caribbean imagination; 16 Cathy Freeman: the quest for Australian identity; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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