Lawrence a Wenner

Fallen Sports Heroes, Media, & Celebrity Culture Lawrence a Wenner New edition

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Table of Contents: Preface -- Part I. Framing Fallen Sports Celebrity -- 1. The Fallen Sports Hero in the Age of Mediated Celebrityhood / Lawrence A. Wenner -- 2. Exposing Celebrity Sports / Toby Miller -- 3. Athletic Heroic Acts and Living on the Moral Edge / William J. Morgan -- 4. From Coverage to Recovery: Mediating the Fallen Sports Celebrity / Bryan E. Denham -- Part II. Fallen Individual Sports Celebrity -- 5. Tiger Woods Lands in the Rough: Golf, Apologia, and the Heroic Limits of Privacy / Andrew C. Billings -- 6. Andre Agassi and the Tides of Tennis Celebrity: Image, Reconstruction, and Confession / C. Lee Harrington, Kimberly S. Schimmel -- 7. On Track, off Track, on Oprah: The Framing of Marion Jones as Golden Girl and American Fraud / Lindsey J. MeAn -- 8. The Ups and Downs of Skating Vertical: Christian Hosoi, Crystal Meth, and Christianity / Becky Beal -- 9. Wrestling with Extremes: Steroids, Traumatic Brain Injury, and Chris Benoit / James L. Cherney, Kurt Lindemann -- 10. Bad Landing: Charting the Gold and Criminal Records of Finnish Ski Jumper, Matti NykAnen / Pirkko Markula, Zoe Avner -- 11. Traitor on High Seas: Russell Coutts, Kiwi Loyalty, and Opportunism in International Yachting / Alistair John, Toni Bruce, Steven J. Jackson -- 12. Running Down What Comes Naturally: Gender Verification and South Africa's Caster Semenya / Cheryl Cooky, Shari L. Dworkin -- Part III. Fallen Team Sports Celebrity -- 13. Dog Bites Man? The Criminalization and Rehabilitation of Michael Vick / Michael D. Giardina, Mar Magnusen -- 14. Guns Are No Joke: Framing Plaxico Burress, Gilbert Arenas, and Gunplay in Professional Sports / Katherine L. Lavelle -- 15. Interrogating Discourses About the WNBA's Bad Girls: Intersectionality and the Politics of Representation / Mary G. McDonald, Cheryl Cooky -- 16. Liquid Beckham: Inoculating a Star Against Falls from Grace / Oliver Rick, Michael L. Silk, David L. Andrews -- 17. No Gagging Matter: John Terry Plays Centre Back from Dad of the Year to (Alleged) Debauchery / Bill Grantham -- 18. Wayne's World: Media Narratives of Downfall and Redemption About Australian Football King, Wayne Carey / Jim McKay, Karen Brooks -- 19. Spinning out of Control: Harbhajan Singh, Postcolonial Cricket Celebrity, and the Revenge Narrative / David Rowe -- Part IV. Fallen Sideline Sports Celebrity -- 20. The Bully and the Girl Who Did What She Did: Neo-Homophobia in Coverage of Two Women's College Basketball Coaches / Marie Hardin, Nicole M. La Voi -- 21. Coaches Gone Wild: Media, Masculinity, and Morality in Big-Time College Football / Michael L. Butterworth -- 22. Faking It: Dean Richards, Rugby Union, and Harlequins at the Bloodgate / Kevin Young, Michael Atkinson -- 23. Who's Sorry Now? Sportscasters Falling from Grace, Saving Face / Heather L. Hundley -- 24. Don Cherry and the Cultural Politics of Rock'Em Sock'Em Nationalism: Complicating the Hero-Villain Binary in Canada / Jay Scherer, Lisa McDermott -- Part V. Afterword -- 25. Beyond the Failed Sports Hero: Where We All Fall Down / Scott Tinley -- Contributors -- Index. Review Citations:

Choice 05/01/2014 (EAN 9781433112980, Paperback)

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Contributor Bio:  Wenner, Lawrence A Lawrence A. Wenner (Ph. D., University of Iowa) is Von der Ahe Professor of Communication and Ethics at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. He is a former editor of the Journal of Sport and Social Issues and his books include Media, Sports, and Society and MediaSport. His research focuses media criticism on the ethics of racial and gender portrayals in commodified narratives.