Sport Stars
Subtitle: The Cultural Politics of Sporting Celebrity
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: September 7, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780415221191
Subjects: Popular culture; Sports & Outdoor Recreation; Sports & Recreation; Pop Arts / Pop Culture; Sports; Essays; Media Studies; Popular Culture - General; Sports & Recreation / General; General; Athletes; Mass media and sports; Social aspects; Social conditions
First sentence: In a contemporary Western culture excessively saturated with media images of celebrity, no American athlete, perhaps no American has been more incessantly promoted than Michael Jordan.