Overview

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, Garry 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. Through a series of case studies of British and American sportsmen, Whannel traces the emergence of of the sporting 'hero' and 'star' , and considers the ways in which the lives of sport stars are narrated through the media. Focussing on figures like Muhammad Ali and David Beckham, whose fame has spread well beyond the world of sport, he shows how growing media coverage has helped produced a sporting system, and examines how modern celebrity addresses the issues of race and nation, performance and identity, morality and violence.

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Author:   Garry Whannel (University of Bedfordshire, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.521kg
ISBN:  

9780415170376

ISBN 10:   0415170370
Pages:   284
Publication Date:   29 November 2001
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

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;

Reviews

'Whannel is an experienced guide into questions of commodification, sexism, racism, and nationalism, as he takes us through the logics and practices of television and the tabloids.' -International Review for the Sociology of Sport 'Whannel is an experienced guide into questions of commodification, sexism, racism, and nationalism, as he takes us through the logics and practices of television and the tabloids.' - International Review for the Sociology of Sport 'Media Sport Stars has the theoretical heft to bear out [the] promise of potential ... a winning one.' - The Hedgehog Review - Celebrity Culture

<p>'Whannel is an experienced guide into questions of commodification, sexism, racism, and nationalism, as he takes us through the logics and practices of television and the tabloids.' - International Review for the Sociology of Sport<p>'Media Sport Stars has the theoretical heft to bear out [the] promise of potential ... a winning one.' - The Hedgehog Review - Celebrity Culture

<p>'Whannel is an experienced guide into questions of commodification, sexism, racism, and nationalism, as he takes us through the logics and practices of television and the tabloids.' - International Review for the Sociology of Sport <p>'Media Sport Stars has the theoretical heft to bear out [the] promise of potential ... a winning one.' - The Hedgehog Review - Celebrity Culture

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