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

Seeing Stars: Sports Celebrity, Identity, and Body Culture in Modern Japan Frost Dennis J. Wydawca: Harvard University, Asia Center Data wydania: 2011 ISBN: 9780674056107 Liczba stron: 352 Format: 229 x 152 Rodzaj oprawy: Hardback Opis produktu: 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.