Whannel Media Sport Stars

Masculinities and Moralities
Erscheinungsjahr 2005
ISBN: 978-1-134-69871-4
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 288 Seiten

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, 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.

Through a series of case studies of British and American sportsmen, Whannel traces the emergence of of the sporting 'hero' and 'star', and considers the ways in which the lives of sport stars are narrated through the media. Focusing on figures like Muhammad Ali and David Beckham, whose fame has spread well beyond the world of sport, he shows how growing media coverage has helped produced a sporting system, and examines how modern celebrity addresses the issues of race and nation, performance and identity, morality and violence.

From Babe Ruth to Mike Tyson, Media Sport Stars demonstrates that, in an era in which both morality and masculinity are percieved to be 'in crisis', sport holds a central place in contemporary culture, and sport stars become the focal point for discourses of masculinity and morality.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Whannel, Garry

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Populärkultur
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Freizeitsoziologie, Konsumsoziologie, Alltagssoziologie, Populärkultur
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction. Part One: The Tales they Tell of Men. 2. Discourses of Crisis in Masculinity 3. The Developments of Media Sports 4. Heroes and Stars 5. Narrativity and Biography 6. Sporting Masculinities Part Two: From Sporting Print to Satellite 7. The Birth of the Sport Star: Pre-War Fame 8. Good Boys: Stars, Nations and Respectability in the 1950s 9. Pretty Boys, the 1960s and Pop Culture 10. Bad Boys and the Work Ethic. Part Three: The Restless Vortex of Celebrity 11. Celebration, Punishment, Redemption and Self-discipline 12. Moralities, Masculinities and Violence 13. Identities: "Race", Nation and Masculinity 14. Performances, Appearances, Identitites and Post-modernities 15. Voretextuality and Conspicious Consumption 16. Conclusion: So What if the Poxy Swan is the Wrong Way? Appendices. 1. Bibliographical Notes 2. The Concept of the "Role Model" - Critical Notes 3. Notes on the Methodological Issues. Bibliography.