Sport stars : the cultural politics of sporting celebrity / edited by David L. Andrews and Steven J. Jackson.
Sport Stars investigates the nature of contemporary sporting celebrity, examining stars' often turbulent relationship with the press, and exploring themes of identity, race, and spectacle.
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Routledge,
2001.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: sport celebrities, public culture, and private experience / David L. Andrews and Steven J. Jackson
- Michael Jordan: corporate sport and postmodern celebrityhood / Mary G. McDonald and David L. Andrews
- Excursions into otherness: understanding Dennis Rodman and the limits of subversive agency / Melisse LaFrance and Genevieve Rail
- Andre Agassi and generation X: reading white masculinity in 1990's America / Kyle W. Kusz
- America's new son: Tiger Woods and America's multiculturalism / C.L Cole and David L. Andrews
- From "Child's play" to "Party crasher": Venus Williams, racism and professional women's tennis / Nancy E. Spencer
- Postmodern blackness and the celebrity sports star: Ian Wright, "race" and English identity / Ben Carrington
- Evil genie or pure genius?: the (im)moral football and public career of Paul "Gazza" Gascoigne / Richard Guilianotti and Michael Gerrard
- Punishment, redemption and celebration in the popular press: the case of David Beckham / Garry Whannel
- Spectacle of a heroic life: the case of Diego Maradona / Eduardo P. Archetti
- Gretzky Nation: Canada, crisis and Americanization / Steven J. Jackson
- Hideo Nomo: pioneer or defector? / Hajime Hirai
- Global Hingis: flexible citizenship and the transnational celebrity / Michael D. Giardina
- Nyandika Maiyoro and Kipchoge Keino: transgression, colonial rhetoric and the postcolonial athlete / John Bale
- Imran Khan: the road from cricket to politics / Peter Corrigan
- Brian Lara: (con)testing the Caribbean imaginiation / Hilary Beckles
- Cathy Freeman: the quest for Australian identity / Toni Bruce and Christopher Hallinan.