Fallen Sports Heroes, Media, & Celebrity Culture
This book has won the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title award 2014. Fallen Sports Heroes, Media, and Celebrity Culture focuses on the increasingly ubiquitous phenomenon whereby notable figures from the sporting world fall from grace in full public view on the main stages of media. While such falls are of remarkably varied character, they fuel questions about the role of the sports hero, the co-mingling of sport and celebrity culture, and the changing nature of moral fault lines in contemporary society. In examining the hero to villain arc of sport celebrity, this volume features leading scholars from the fields of media, sport, and cultural…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-4331-1299-7
- EAN: 9781433112997
- Produktnummer: 15386671
- Verlag: Peter Lang
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 396 S.
- Masse: H23.1 cm x B15.5 cm x D2.5 cm 702 g
- Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
- Gewicht: 702
Über den Autor
Lawrence A. Wenner (PhD, University of Iowa) is Von der Ahe Professor of Communication and Ethics in the College of Communication & Fine Arts and the School of Film & Television at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. He is editor of the journals International Review for the Sociology of Sport and Communication and Sport. His books on sport include Media, Sports, and Society; MediaSport; and Sport, Beer, and Gender: Promotional Culture and Contemporary Social Life (with Steven J. Jackson).
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