Seeing stars : : sports celebrity, identity, and body culture in modern Japan / / Dennis J. Frost.
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 s...
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Frost, Dennis J., author. Seeing stars : sports celebrity, identity, and body culture in modern Japan / Dennis J. Frost. Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London : Harvard University Asia Center, [2010] 2010 1 online resource (xi, 337 p. :) ill. ; text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Harvard East Asian monographs ; 331 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. Preliminary Material -- Sports Celebrity in Japan: A Transnational History -- Saving Sumo: Re-Presenting the National Sport -- The Making of a Self-Made Star: Celebrity Images and the Emergence of a Sports-Star Paradigm -- "So, Your Daughter Is a Sportsman": Gender Anxiety and Nationalism in the Golden Age of Sports -- "Japan's Number One" Goes to War: Baseball, Militarization, and Memory -- Becoming the Kanmuriwashi: Ethnicity, Narrativity, and "Spectacular Difference" -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Harvard East Asian Monographs. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references. Athletes Japan Public opinion. Sports in popular culture Japan. Celebrities Japan Public opinion. Athletes in mass media. 0-674-05610-8 ebrary Harvard East Asian monographs ; 331. |
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Preliminary Material -- Sports Celebrity in Japan: A Transnational History -- Saving Sumo: Re-Presenting the National Sport -- The Making of a Self-Made Star: Celebrity Images and the Emergence of a Sports-Star Paradigm -- "So, Your Daughter Is a Sportsman": Gender Anxiety and Nationalism in the Golden Age of Sports -- "Japan's Number One" Goes to War: Baseball, Militarization, and Memory -- Becoming the Kanmuriwashi: Ethnicity, Narrativity, and "Spectacular Difference" -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Harvard East Asian Monographs. |
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