CiNii Books - Media sport stars : masculinities and moralities

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, 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. Focusing 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. From Babe Ruth to Mike Tyson, Media Sport Stars demonstrates that, in an era in which both morality and masculinity are percieved to be 'in crisis', sport holds a central place in contemporary culture, and sport stars become the focal point for discourses of masculinity and morality.

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

by "Nielsen BookData"

Media sport stars : masculinities and moralities

Author(s)

Bibliographic Information

Available at 17 libraries

Search this Book/Journal

Note

Description and Table of Contents

Details

Export