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1 online resource. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Acknowledgments -- Foreword: Looking inside the cave...and out / David C. Ogden -- Introduction: Notes from under the big top / Lisa Doris Alexander and Joel Nathan Rosen -- "You must believe me": Northeast Ohio and the promise(s) of LeBron James / Curtis M. Harris -- I desire him so much he repulses me: The transcendentally disappointing fantasy of David Beckham (or why is there only one David Beckham) / Carleton Brick -- The apotheosis of Tiger Woods: monetizing racial transcendence and sexual transgression for a quarter of a century / Henry Yu -- "She's a princess, and I'm a pile of crap": Retroactive apologia and the Tonya Harding Olympic Debacle / Kevin A. Stein, Matthew H. Barton, and Arthur T. Challis -- Symbolic rapture: "Take a knee" and the NFL as commodified spectacle / Brian Carroll -- "Russian sensation" or "mean girl"?: Maria Sharapova, drug bans, and schadenfreude / Rory Magrath -- Jason Collins, Michael Sam, and the challenge of coming out in men's team sport / Andrew C. Billings, Leigh M. Moscowitz, and Melvin Lewis -- Shoot-pass-slam: Reconsidering Shaquille O'Neal / Andrew McIntosh -- The lion queen: Michelle Akers and the pride of US women's soccer / Roxanne Coche -- A notorious spectacle: A critical media analysis of the "money" fight between Connor McGregor and Floyd Mayweather / Ted M. Butryn, Matthew A. Masucci, and Jay Johnson -- Reading Fernando Valenzuela and Fernandomania: broadening Americanness one pitch at a time / Jorge Moraga -- Afterword: Bread, circuses, and Desolation Row / Jack Lule -- Contributors -- Index. |
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Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web. |
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Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 10, 2022). |
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Athletes in mass media.
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Mass media and sports.
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Sports in popular culture.
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Sports -- Corrupt practices.
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Athletes -- Public opinion.
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Sports -- Marketing.
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Alexander, Lisa Doris, editor.
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Rosen, Joel Nathan, 1961- editor.
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JSTOR (Organization)
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Faculty Publication.
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| Related To |
Print version: Circus is in town Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2022 9781496836502 (DLC) 2021042889 |
| ISBN |
9781496836540 electronic book |
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1496836545 electronic book |
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9781496836519 |
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1496836510 |
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9781496836526 |
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1496836529 |
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9781496836533 |
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1496836537 |
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9781496836502 hardcover |
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9781496836557 trade paperback |
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2021042890 |
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