Sport stars :  the cultural politics of sporting celebrity / 
edited by David L. Andrews and Steven J. Jackson. 
 - x, 280 pages ;  24 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/> Introduction: Sport Celebrities, Public Culture, and Private Experience /  Michael Jordan: Corporate Sport and Postmodern Celebrityhood /  Excursions into Otherness: Understanding Dennis Rodman and the Limits of Subversive Agency /  Andre Agassi and Generation X: Reading White Masculinity in 1990s America /  America's New Son: Tiger Woods and America's Multiculturalism /  From "Child's Play" to "Party Crasher": Venus Williams, Racism and Professional Women's Tennis /  Postmodern Blackness and the Celebrity Sports Star: Ian Wright, "Race" and English Identity /  Evil Genie or Pure Genius?: The (Im)moral Football and Public Career of Paul "Gazza" Gascoigne /  Punishment, Redemption and Celebration in the Popular Press: The Case of David Beckham /  The Spectacle of a Heroic Life: The Case of Diego Maradona /  Gretzky Nation: Canada, Crisis, and Americanization /  Hideo Nomo: Pioneer or Defector? /  Global Hingis: Flexible Citizenship and the Transnational Celebrity /  Nyandika Maiyoro and Kipchoge Keino: Transgression, Colonial Rhetoric and the Postcolonial Athlete /  Imran Khan: The Road from Cricket to Politics /  Brian Lara: (Con)testing the Caribbean Imagination /  Cathy Freeman and the Quest for Australian Identity /  David L. Andrews and Steven J. Jackson --  Mary G. McDonald and David L. Andrews --  Melisse Lafrance and Genevieve Rail --  Kyle W. Kusz --  C. L. Cole and David L. Andrews --  Nancy E. Spencer --  Ben Carrington --  Richard Giulianotti and Michael Gerrard --  Garry Whannel --  Eduardo P. Archetti --  Steven J. Jackson --  Hajime Hirai --  Mike Giardina --  John Bale --  Peter Corrigan --  Hilary Beckles --  Toni Bruce and Christopher J. Hallinan.  1.  2.  3.  4.  5.  6.  7.  8.  9.  10.  11.  12.  13.  14.  15.  16. 
<br/><br/> Sport stars investigates the nature of the contemporary sports celebrity, examining stars' often turbulent relationship with the media and the sporting establishment. Through a series of case studies of sporting stars including Diego Maradona, Michael Jordan, Venus Williams and David Beckham, contributors examine the cultural, political, economic and technological forces which combine to produce the sports celebrity, and discuss the individual forms of fame each star experiences. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0415221188 9780415221184 0415221196 9780415221191 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2001031655 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Sports--Social aspects<br/>Athletes--Social conditions<br/>Mass media and sports<br/>Fame--Social aspects<br/>Celebrities
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>GV706.5  / .S77 2001 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>306.483