More than cricket and football : international sport and the challenge of celebrity / / edited by Joel Nathan Rosen and Maureen M. Smith

• Pubblicazione: Jackson : , : University Press of Mississippi, , 2019
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (349 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 796
• Soggetto topico: Sports and globalization; Sports in popular culture; Athletes - Public opinion; Fame - Social aspects; Athletes
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Persona (resp. second.): RosenJoel Nathan <1961->; SmithMaureen Margaret <1967->
• Note generali: Previously issued in print: 2016.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Foreword : international sport in Context / Roberta J. Park -- Introduction : drawing a new map of the world in sport / Joel Nathan Rosen and Maureen M. Smith -- Suzanne Lenglen : liberated woman, French revolutionary, or both? / Nancy E. Spencer -- Valentino Rossi : a uniquely British look at an Italian motorsport legend / Sean Bell -- Andy Murray : savior from outside the margins / Lisa Doris Alexander and Dan Travis -- The interaction of personal, local, and global forces : Yao Ming's rise and sustained influence in Chinese sport / Dong Jinxia, Zhong Yijing, and Li Luyang -- Duke Kahanamoku : racialized colonization and the exoticization of aquatic royalty / Joel S. Franks -- Chad Rowan : ritual, religion, and one American's pitch-perfect performance inside Japan's Hall of National Sport / Mark Panek -- From out of the shadows of invisibility : Brazilian women's football and the pioneering figure of Marta / Claudia Samuel Kessler and Silvana Vilodre Goellner -- The many faces of Samuel Eto?o Fils : (re)solving an irascible persona / Benn L. Bongang -- Murali and Sanga : forging identity and pride through cricket in a small island nation / Gamage Harsha Perera and Tim B. Swartz -- Grete Waitz : the art of hurrying slowly / Theresa Walton-Fisette -- Rodney Marsh : the making of a maverick footballer / Dominic Standish -- Ayrton Senna : the legacy of a global racing icon / Viral Shah -- Katarina Witt : the many faces of a showcase athlete / Annette R. Hofmann -- Afterword : the wide worlds of sport text / Jack Lule.
• Sommario/riassunto: Given the presumed dominance of American sport, many fans throughout the hemisphere find it difficult to envision the role of sport beyond the confines of their own continent. Rather than focusing on the Western Hemisphere, this collection of some of world sport's most heralded celebrities serves as a sort of passport to many places that make up our global sporting environment.
• Titolo autorizzato: More than cricket and football
• ISBN: 1-4968-0992-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910151719103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Mississippi scholarship online.