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Author: David L. Andrews
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2002-09-11
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 1134598548
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSport Stars investigates the nature of contemporary sporting celebrity, examining stars' often turbulent relationship with the press, and exploring themes of identity, race, and spectacle.
Author: Garry Whannel
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005-07-08
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 1134698704
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMedia 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.
Author: Kalyani Mookherji
Publisher: Prabhat Prakashan
Published: 2021-01-01
Total Pages: 164
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThese 20 sports biographies,represent the very best that sports has to offer. the books on this list are a showcase of true stories that are bound to move and inspire readers of all ages.
Author: Peter Kopp
Publisher: Books on Demand
Published: 2020-09-08
Total Pages: 154
ISBN-13: 3751993797
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Author: Barry Smart
Publisher: SAGE
Published: 2005-09-15
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780761943518
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDavid Beckham, Tiger Woods, Anna Kournikova - over recent years sports stars, on both sides of the Atlantic, have not just crossed over into the mainstream celebrity scene, but increasingly dominate it. This volume offers an analysis of the development of modern sport in the UK and the USA.
Author: John Peter Sugden
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780415251006
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCritical and radical perspectives have been central to the emergence of the sociology of sport as a discipline in its own right. This ground-breaking new book is the first to offer a comprehensive theory and method for a critical sociology of sport. It argues that class, political economy, hegemony and other concepts central to the radical tradition are essential for framing, understanding and changing social and political relations within sport and between sport and society. The book draws upon the disciplines of politics, sociology, history and philosophy to provide a critical analysis of power relations throughout the world of sport, while offering important new case studies from such diverse sporting contexts as the Olympics, world football, boxing, cricket, tennis and windsurfing. In the process, it addresses key topics such as: * nations and nationalism * globalisation * race * gender * political economy. Power Games can be used as a complete introduction to the study of sport and society. And will be essential reading for any serious student of sport. At the same time, it is a provocative book that by argument and example challenges those who research and write about sport to make their work relevant to social and political reform.
Author: Koji Kobayashi
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-03-31
Total Pages: 182
ISBN-13: 1000372189
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat does the ‘Asian’ mean in Asian sport celebrity? With a collection of nine essays on Asian sport celebrities variously associated with Australia, Belgium, China, Japan, New Zealand, North Korea, Philippines, South Korea, Taiwan and the United States, this book offers a comprehensive understanding of the multi-faceted construction of what it means to be Asian from the perspectives of race, ethnicity and regionality. Sport celebrity, as a modern invention, is disseminated from the West to the rest of the globe including Asia, and so are its functions of symbolizing particular values, desires and personalities idolized and idealized within their respective societies. While Asian athletes were historically depicted as weak, fragile and biologically ‘unsuited’ to modern sport, the emergence of more than a few world-class Asian athletes in the twenty-first century demands an in-depth inquiry into the relationship between sport celebrity and the representation of Asia. This book is therefore essential for those interested in a range of socio-cultural issues—including globalization, transnationalism, migration, modernity, (post-)coloniality, gender politics, spectacle, citizenship, Orientalism, and nationalism—within and beyond Asia. It was originally published as a special issue of The International Journal of the History of Sport.
Author: Alfred Archer
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-12-17
Total Pages: 187
ISBN-13: 100022127X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEmotions play an important role in both sport and games, from the pride and joy of victory, the misery and shame of defeat, and the anger and anxiety felt along the way. This volume brings together experts in the philosophy of sport and games and experts in the philosophy of emotion to investigate this important area of research. The book discusses the role of the emotions for both participants and spectators of sports and games, including detailed discussions of suffering, shame, anger, anxiety, misery and hatred. It also investigates the issues of collective emotions in relation to sport such as the shared joy of a football crowd when their team scores a goal. In addition, this volume examines the role of pretence and make believe in emotional reactions to sport. In so doing, it makes important contributions both to the philosophy of sport and to the philosophy of emotions, which will be of interest to researchers and students in both fields. This book was first published as a special issue of the Journal of the Philosophy of Sport.
Author: Maria Hopwood
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012-05-23
Total Pages: 277
ISBN-13: 1136435522
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn increasingly important element of sport business is the management of the myriad of relationships in which sport entities are involved. It is the relationship management aspect of sport which is the unique focus of this book. Sport Public Relations and Communication discusses and reformulates the principles of public relations and communications by demonstrating how they can be successfully applied in practice within a sports context. Features include: discussion customized to apply directly to sports management, thoroughly exploring the nuances of the field case studies used throughout the book to illustrate the practical application of theory discussion questions to help formulate and articulate defensible arguments in relation to public relations and communications strategies, forging strong links between theory and practice examples used to draw from the authors’ extensive experience in North America, the United Kingdom, Europe and Australia and New Zealand, providing a well rounded and global understanding of the field. This is the first book to explore public relations and communications in the sports industry in a global context. It brings together applicable strategies for the sport management or marketing student, and provides a concise guide to how public relations and communications strategies and principles can be applied to sport management and marketing issues.
Author: Lincoln Allison
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9780415346023
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe book examines the increased influence on international sport of the politics of global institutions such as global economic market forces, International Non-Governmental Organisations and multi-national business and media.
