Media Sport Stars: Masculinities and Moralities

by Garry Whannel

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415170370
• ISBN13: 9780415170376
• Release Date: November 2001
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.6"