{"product_id":"media-sport-stars-garry-whannel-9780415170383","title":"Media Sport Stars: Masculinities and Moralities","description":"\u003cem\u003eMedia Sport Stars\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003eThrough 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.\u003cbr\u003eFrom Babe Ruth to Mike Tyson, \u003cem\u003eMedia Sport Stars\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Garry Whannel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0415170389\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780415170383\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/29\/2001\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 284\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.95lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.36h x 6.14w x 0.63d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2002 pg. 1998","brand":"Garry Whannel","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44056067178751,"sku":"9780415170383","price":46.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9e461e16-af85-43db-b4a8-c2a19bd2f6ae.jpg?v=1685039328","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/media-sport-stars-garry-whannel-9780415170383","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}