Fallen sports heroes, media, & celebrity culture / edited by Lawrence A. Wenner.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : P. Lang, [2013]Copyright date: ©2013Description: xi, 381 pages ; 23 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 143311299X
- 9781433112997
- 1433112981
- 9781433112980
- Fallen sports heroes, media, and celebrity culture
- 306.483 23
- GV706.5 .F35 2013
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
pt. I. Framing fallen sports celebrity. The fallen sports hero in the age of mediated celebrityhood / Lawrence A. Wenner -- Exposing celebrity sports / Toby Miller -- Athletic heroic acts and living on the moral edge / William J. Morgan -- From coverage to recovery: mediating the fallen sports celebrity / Bryan E. Denham -- pt. II. Fallen individual sports celebrity. Tiger Woods lands in the rough: golf, apologia, and the heroic limits of privacy / Andrew C. Billings -- Andre Agassi and the tides of tennis celebrity: image, reconstruction, and confession / C. Lee Harrington and Kimberly S. Schimmel -- On track, off track, on Oprah: the framing of Marion Jones as golden girl and American fraud / Lindsey J. Mean -- The ups and downs of skating vertical: Christian Hosoi, crystal meth, and Christianity / Becky Beal -- Wrestling with extremes: steroids, traumatic brain injury, and Chris Benoit / James L. Cherney and Kurt Lindemann -- Bad landing: charting the gold and criminal records of Finnish ski jumper, Matti Nykänen / Pirkko Markula and Zoe Avner -- Traitor on high seas: Russell Coutts, Kiwi loyalty, and opportunism in international yachting / Alistair John, Toni Bruce, and Steven J. Jackson -- Running down what comes naturally: gender verification and South Africa's Caster Semenya / Cheryl Cooky and Shari L. Dworkin.
pt. III. Fallen team sports celebrity. Dog bites man?: the criminalization and rehabilitation of Michael Vick / Michael D. Giardina and Mar Magnusen -- Guns are no joke: framing Plaxico Burress, Gilbert Arenas, and gunplay in professional sports / Katherine L. Lavelle -- Interrogating discourses about the WNBA's "bad girls": intersectionality and the politics of representation / Mary G. McDonald and Cheryl Cooky -- Liquid Beckham: inoculating a star against falls from grace / Oliver Rick, Michael L. Silk, David L. Andrews -- No gagging matter: John Terry plays centre back from Dad of the Year to (alleged) debauchery / Bill Grantham -- "Wayne's World": media narratives of downfall and redemption about Australian football "king", Wayne Carey / Jim McKay and Karen Brooks -- Spinning out of control: Harbhajan Singh, postcolonial cricket celebrity, and the "revenge narrative" / David Rowe -- pt. IV. Fallen sideline sports celebrity. The "bully" and the "girl who did what she did": neo-homophobia in coverage of two women's college basketball coaches / Marie Hardin and Nicole M. LaVoi -- Coaches gone wild: media. masculinity, and morality in big-time college football / Michael L. Butterworth -- Faking it: Dean Richards, rugby union, and harlequins at the bloodgate / Kevin Young and Michael Atkinson -- Who's sorry now?: sportscasters falling from grace, saving face / Heather L. Hundley -- Don Cherry and the cultural politics of rock'em sock'em nationalism: complicating the hero-villain binary in Canada / Jay Scherer and Lisa McDermott -- pt. V. Afterward. Beyond the failed sports hero: where we all fall down / Scott Tinley.
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