Sport Stars

Name: Sport Stars
Author: David L. Andrews

The Cultural Politics of Sporting Celebrity

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Paperback, 294 blz. | Engels

Taylor & Francis | 1e druk, 2001

ISBN13: 9780415221191

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Taylor & Francis 1e druk, 2001 9780415221191

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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.