ISBN:
9781032052120
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1032052120
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9781032052090
,
1032052090
Language:
English
Pages:
xiv, 265 Seiten
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25 cm
Series Statement:
Critical research in football
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Keywords:
Fußball
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Maradona, Diego / 1960-2020
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Maradona, Diego / 1960-2020 / In mass media
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Mass media and sports
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Sports and globalization
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Soccer players / Argentina / Biography
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Maradona, Diego / 1960-2020
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Mass media
;
Mass media and sports
;
Soccer players
;
Sports and globalization
;
Argentina
;
Biographies
;
Fußball
Abstract:
"This is the first academic book in English to closely examine the life of Diego Maradona from socio-cultural perspectives, exploring how his status as an icon, a popular sporting hero and a political figurehead have been culturally constructed, reproduced, and manipulated. The book looks at representations of Maradona across a wide variety of media, including literature, cinema, popular music, printed and online press, and radio, and in different countries around the world, to cast new light on topics such as the instrumentality of sporting heroes and the links between sport, nationalism and ideology. It shows how the life of Maradona - from his origins in the barrio through to his rise to god-like status in Naples and as a postcolonial symbol of courage and resistance against imperial powers across the global south, alongside scandal and his fall from grace - powerfully illustrates themes such as the dynamics of gender, justice and affect that underpin the study of sport, culture and society. This is essential reading for anybody with an interest in football, sport studies, media studies, cultural studies or sociology"--
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction : the cultural significance of Maradona / Pablo Brescia and Mariano Paz -- Bibliography on Maradona studies -- Part I: global Maradona -- Maradona and Argentina : four takes / Pablo Brescia and Mariano Paz -- Maradona and Spain : mythologies of the hero narrative / David García Cames, translated by Muireann Prendergast -- Maradona and Italy : the rise and fall of the man on his own / Pippo Russo, translated by Dolores Gadler -- Maradona and Mexico : the ecstasy and the agony / Fernando Segura M. Trejo and John Williams -- Maradona and Britain : an unforgettable affair / Raymond Boyle -- Part II: representing Maradona -- Maradona and literature : God is only human / Pablo Brescia -- Maradona and cinema : biopic, documentary, art film / Mariano Paz -- Maradona and music: soundscapes and echoes of the Maradonian song / Martín Virgili, translated by Dolores Gadler -- Part III: reading and writing Maradona -- Specters of Maradona : chronicle/fiction/autobiography/film / Ksenija Bilbija -- The Maradona story : tropes in biography and autobiography / Alan Tomlinson -- Argentinian feminism's in the light (and shadow) of Maradona / Gabriela Garton and Julia Hang -- Deifying Diego : the church of Maradona and beyond / Luca Bifulco -- Writing Maradona -- One and all / Martín Kohan, translated by David Atkinson -- God, the era, and the epic / Ana María Shua, translated by Allison Febo -- Language and tears / Edgardo Scott, translated by Ana Terrazas Calero -- Saint Diego Maradona? / María Rosa Lojo, translated by Allison Febo -- M and M : to see or not to see / Patricio Pron, translated by Emma Byrne -- Number ten in ten / Pedro Palou -- Children of Maradona / Beatriz Sarlo, translated by Ana Terrazas Calero
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