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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| Superior document: | Harvard East Asian monographs ; 331 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, Massachusetts ;, London : : Harvard University Asia Center,, [2010] 2010 |
| Year of Publication: | 2010 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Harvard East Asian monographs ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 337 p. :); ill. ; |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.