Sport Stars: The Cultural Politics of Sporting Celebrity
by David L. Andrews
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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 show more 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. show lessTags
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David L. Andrews is Associate Professor of Kinesiology and Affiliate Faculty in the Department of American Studies and the Department of Sociology at the University of Maryland, College Park.
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- Genres
- Nonfiction, Sports and Leisure
- DDC/MDS
- 306.4 — Society, government, & culture Social sciences, sociology & anthropology Social Behavior - Dating, Marriage, Divorce Specific aspects of culture
- LCC
- GV706.5 .S77 — Geography, Anthropology and Recreation Recreation. Leisure Recreation. Leisure Sports
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