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Auteur(s) : Frost, Dennis J.
Titre(s) : Seeing stars [Texte imprimé] : sports celebrity, identity, and body culture in modern Japan / Dennis J. Frost
Publication : Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center, 2010
Description matérielle : xi, 337 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Collection : Harvard East Asian monographs ; 331
Lien à la collection : Harvard East Asian monographs
Comprend : List of Figures -- ; Author's Note -- ; Introduction: Sports Celebrity in Japan: A
Transnational History --1 ; Saving Sumo: Re-Presenting the National Sport --2 ; The
Making of a Self-Made Star: Celebrity Images and the Emergence of a Sports-Star Paradigm
--3 ; "So, Your Daughter Is a Sportsman" : Gender Anxiety and Nationalism in the Golden
Age of Sports --4 ; "Japan's Number One" Goes to War: Baseball, Militarization, and
Memory --5 ; Becoming the Kanmuriwashi: Ethnicity, Narrativity, and "Spectacular Difference"
-- ; Epilogue: So How Tall Is Ichro? -- ; Reference Matter -- ; Notes -- ; Bibliography
-- ; Index.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-325) and index
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 of star athletes - including sumo grand champion
Hitachiyama, female Olympic medalist Hitomi Kinue, legendary pitcher Sawamura Eiji,
and world champion boxer Gushiken Yokoo - demonstrating how representations of such
sports stars mediated Japan's emergence into the putatively universal realm of sports,
unsettled orthodox notions of gender, facilitated wartime mobilization of physically
fit men and women, and masked lingering inequalities in postwar Japanese society.
As the first critical examination of the history of sports celebrity outside a Euro-American
context, this book also sheds new light on the transnational forces at play in the
production and impact of celebrity images and dispels misconceptions that sports stars
in the non-West are mere imitations of their Western counterparts
Sujet(s) : Sportifs de haut niveau -- Japon -- Histoire
Sociologie du corps -- Japon -- Histoire
Célébrités -- Société -- Japon -- Histoire
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780674056107 (hardcover) (alk. paper). - ISBN 0674056108 (hardcover) (alk. paper)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb435435538
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