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"In this book on sport and the nature of reputation, editors Lisa Doris Alexander and Joel Nathan Rosen have tasked their contributors with examining reputation from the perspective of celebrity and spectacle, which in some cases can be better defined as scandal. The subjects chronicled in this...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Alexander, Lisa Doris (Editor ), Rosen, Joel Nathan, 1961- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2021]
Temas:
Athletes in mass media.
Mass media and sports.
Sports in popular culture.
Sports > Corrupt practices.
Athletes > Public opinion.
Sports > Marketing.
Sportifs dans les médias.
Médias et sports.
Sports dans la culture populaire.
Sports > Pratiques déloyales.
SPORTS & RECREATION / Sociology of Sports
Athletes in mass media
Athletes > Public opinion
Mass media and sports
Sports > Corrupt practices
Sports in popular culture
Sports > Marketing
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Foreword: Looking inside the cave...and out / David C. Ogden
  • Introduction: Notes from under the big top / Lisa Doris Alexander and Joel Nathan Rosen
  • "You must believe me": Northeast Ohio and the promise(s) of LeBron James / Curtis M. Harris
  • I desire him so much he repulses me: The transcendentally disappointing fantasy of David Beckham (or why is there only one David Beckham) / Carleton Brick
  • The apotheosis of Tiger Woods: monetizing racial transcendence and sexual transgression for a quarter of a century / Henry Yu
  • "She's a princess, and I'm a pile of crap": Retroactive apologia and the Tonya Harding Olympic Debacle / Kevin A. Stein, Matthew H. Barton, and Arthur T. Challis
  • Symbolic rapture: "Take a knee" and the NFL as commodified spectacle / Brian Carroll
  • "Russian sensation" or "mean girl"?: Maria Sharapova, drug bans, and schadenfreude / Rory Magrath
  • Jason Collins, Michael Sam, and the challenge of coming out in men's team sport / Andrew C. Billings, Leigh M. Moscowitz, and Melvin Lewis
  • Shoot-pass-slam: Reconsidering Shaquille O'Neal / Andrew McIntosh
  • The lion queen: Michelle Akers and the pride of US women's soccer / Roxanne Coche
  • A notorious spectacle: A critical media analysis of the "money" fight between Connor McGregor and Floyd Mayweather / Ted M. Butryn, Matthew A. Masucci, and Jay Johnson
  • Reading Fernando Valenzuela and Fernandomania: broadening Americanness one pitch at a time / Jorge Moraga
  • Afterword: Bread, circuses, and Desolation Row / Jack Lule
  • Contributors
  • Index.

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