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Sport Stars: The Cultural Politics of Sporting Celebrity
By David L. Andrews, Steven J. Jackson
304 pages
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Synopsis
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 ...
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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Table of contents
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- Title Page iii
- Contents v
- 1 - Introduction 1
- Bibliography 17
- 1 - Michael Jordan 20
- Bibliography 34
- 2 - Excursions into Otherness 36
- Notes 48
- Bibliography 49
- 3 - Andre Agassi and Generation X 51
- Bibliography 68
- 4 - America's New Son 70
- 5 - From "Child's Play" to "Party Crasher" 87
- Bibliography 99
- 6 - Postmodern Blackness and the Celebrity Sports Star 102
- 7 - Evil Genie or Pure Genius? 124
- Title Page iii
- Contents v
- 1 - Introduction 1
- Bibliography 17
- 1 - Michael Jordan 20
- Bibliography 34
- 2 - Excursions into Otherness 36
- Notes 48
- Bibliography 49
- 3 - Andre Agassi and Generation X 51
- Bibliography 68
- 4 - America's New Son 70
- 5 - From "Child's Play" to "Party Crasher" 87
- Bibliography 99
- 6 - Postmodern Blackness and the Celebrity Sports Star 102
- 7 - Evil Genie or Pure Genius? 124
- Notes 136
- 8 - Punishment, Redemption and Celebration in the Popular Press 138
- 9 - The Spectacle of a Heroic Life 151
- 10 - Gretzky Nation 164
- 11 - Hideo Nomo 187
- 12 - Global Hingis 201
- 13 - Nyandika Maiyoro and Kipchoge Keino 218
- 14 - Imran Khan 231
- 15 - Brian Lara 243
- Notes 255
- 16 - Cathy Freeman 257
- Index 271