Authors: Gary Whannel, Whannel Garry
ISBN-13: 9780415170383, ISBN-10: 0415170389
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
Date Published: December 2001
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Media 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, Gary 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. Focusing on figures like Muhammad Ali and David Beckham, Whannel shows how growing media coverage has helped produce a sporting system, and examines how modern celebrity addresses the issues of race and nation, performance and identity, morality and violence.
Preface | ||
Acknowledgements | ||
1 | Introduction | 1 |
Pt. I | The tales they tell of men ... | 15 |
2 | Discourses of crisis in masculinity | 17 |
3 | The development of media sport | 30 |
4 | Heroes and stars | 40 |
5 | Narrativity and biography | 52 |
6 | Sporting masculinities | 64 |
Pt. II | From sporting print to satellite ... | 79 |
7 | The birth of the sport star: pre-war fame | 81 |
8 | Good boys: stars, nations and respectability in the 1950s | 94 |
9 | Pretty boys, the 1960s and pop culture | 109 |
10 | Bad boys and the work ethic | 129 |
Pt. III | The restless vortex of celebrity | 143 |
11 | Celebration, punishment, redemption and self-discipline | 145 |
12 | Moralities, masculinities and violence | 159 |
13 | Identities: 'race', nation and masculinities | 173 |
14 | Performances, appearances, identities and postmodernities | 190 |
15 | Vortextuality and conspicuous consumption | 201 |
16 | Conclusion: So what if the poxy swan is the wrong way? | 213 |
App. 1: Biographical notes | 217 | |
App. 2 | The concept of 'role model' - critical notes | 222 |
App. 3 | Notes on methodological issues | 226 |
Notes | 228 | |
Bibliography | 244 | |
Index | 259 |