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Seeing Stars: Sports Celebrity, Identity, and Body Culture in Modern Japan

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Description for Seeing Stars: Sports Celebrity, Identity, and Body Culture in Modern Japan Hardback. Traces the emergence and evolution of sports celebrity in Japan from the seventeenth through the twenty-first centuries. This title explores how various constituencies have repeatedly molded and deployed representations of individual athletes, revealing that sports stars are socially constructed phenomena. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 352 pages, 37 halftones. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; JFCA; JFSL3; WS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 640.

In Seeing Stars, Dennis J. Frost traces the emergence and evolution of sports celebrity in Japan from the seventeenth through the twenty-first centuries. Frost explores how various constituencies have repeatedly molded and deployed representations of individual athletes, revealing that sports stars are socially constructed phenomena, the products of both particular historical moments and broader discourses of celebrity.

Drawing from media coverage, biographies, literary works, athletes’ memoirs, bureaucratic memoranda, interviews, and films, Frost argues that the largely unquestioned mass of information about sports stars not only reflects, but also shapes society and body culture. He examines the lives and times ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Harvard University, Asia Center United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Series
Harvard East Asian Monographs
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780674056107
SKU
V9780674056107
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About Dennis J. Frost
Dennis J. Frost is Wen Chao Chen Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies at Kalamazoo College.

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