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Game Faces: Sport Celebrity and the Laws of Reputation
Sarah K. Fields
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Description for Game Faces: Sport Celebrity and the Laws of Reputation
Hardback. Series: Sport and Society. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; LNJ; LNJD; LNJS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 238 x 20. Weight in Grams: 466.
Sports figures cope with a level of celebrity once reserved for the stars of stage and screen. In Game Faces , Sarah K. Fields looks at the legal ramifications of the cases brought by six of them--golfer Tiger Woods, quarterback Joe Montana, college football coach Wally Butts, baseball pitchers Warren Spahn and Don Newcombe, and hockey enforcer Tony Twist--when faced with what they considered attacks on their privacy and image. Placing each case in its historical and legal context, Fields examines how sports figures in the U.S. have used the law to regain control of their image. As she shows, ... Read more
Sports figures cope with a level of celebrity once reserved for the stars of stage and screen. In Game Faces , Sarah K. Fields looks at the legal ramifications of the cases brought by six of them--golfer Tiger Woods, quarterback Joe Montana, college football coach Wally Butts, baseball pitchers Warren Spahn and Don Newcombe, and hockey enforcer Tony Twist--when faced with what they considered attacks on their privacy and image. Placing each case in its historical and legal context, Fields examines how sports figures in the U.S. have used the law to regain control of their image. As she shows, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Condition
New
Series
Sport and Society
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252040283
SKU
V9780252040283
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About Sarah K. Fields
Sarah K. Fields is an associate professor in communication at the University of Colorado—Denver. She is the author of Female Gladiators: Gender, Law, and Contact Sport in America.
Reviews for Game Faces: Sport Celebrity and the Laws of Reputation
“Recommended."
Choice "Sarah Fields' work on the history of sports and law dispels all doubt about the legitimacy of sports law as a field of study. Game Faces presents a convincing argument that cases about sports have made unique and important contributions to the law of privacy and free speech."
Erin Buzuvis, Western New England University "Sarah Fields combines ... Read more
Choice "Sarah Fields' work on the history of sports and law dispels all doubt about the legitimacy of sports law as a field of study. Game Faces presents a convincing argument that cases about sports have made unique and important contributions to the law of privacy and free speech."
Erin Buzuvis, Western New England University "Sarah Fields combines ... Read more