Author: Jeff Benedict
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
A hard-hitting look at the darker side of sports and the all-too-infrequent prosecutions of famous athletes for crimes against women.
Public Heroes, Private Felons
Author: Jeff Benedict
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
A hard-hitting look at the darker side of sports and the all-too-infrequent prosecutions of famous athletes for crimes against women.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
A hard-hitting look at the darker side of sports and the all-too-infrequent prosecutions of famous athletes for crimes against women.
Where Have All the Heroes Gone?
Author: Bruce Garen Peabody
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199982961
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Where Have All the Heroes Gone? provides an analysis of heroism's application and meaning among political and media elites, as well as the mass public over the past fifty years. In asking "what has happened" to American heroes over this span, it explores how heroes are used strategically by governing officials and providers of media content in ways that are frequently divergent from and even directly opposed to popular expectations.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199982961
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Where Have All the Heroes Gone? provides an analysis of heroism's application and meaning among political and media elites, as well as the mass public over the past fifty years. In asking "what has happened" to American heroes over this span, it explores how heroes are used strategically by governing officials and providers of media content in ways that are frequently divergent from and even directly opposed to popular expectations.
American Heroes in a Media Age
Author: Susan J. Drucker
Publisher: VNR AG
ISBN: 9781881303190
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
This volume explores the relationship of hero to celebrity and the changing role of the hero in American culture. It establishes that the nature of hero and its function in society is a communication phenomenon, which has been and is being altered by the rapid advance of electronic media.
Publisher: VNR AG
ISBN: 9781881303190
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
This volume explores the relationship of hero to celebrity and the changing role of the hero in American culture. It establishes that the nature of hero and its function in society is a communication phenomenon, which has been and is being altered by the rapid advance of electronic media.
Sports Heroes, Fallen Idols
Author: Stanley H. Teitelbaum
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803216440
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
On the court and on the field they are the world?s winners, exhibiting a natural grace and prowess their adoring fans can only dream about. Yet so often, off the field our sports heroes lose their perspective, their balance, and ultimately their place. In a work as timely as the latest fracas on the basketball court or the most recent drug-induced scandal in the dugout, Stanley H. Teitelbaum looks into the circumstances behind many star athletes? precipitous fall from grace. ΓΈ In his psychotherapy practice, Teitelbaum has worked extensively with professional athletes and sports agents?work he draws on here for insight into the psyche of sports figures and the off-the-field challenges they face. Considering both historical and current cases, he shows how, in many instances, the very factors that elevate athletes to superstardom contribute to their downfall. An evenhanded and honest look at athletes who have faltered, Teitelbaum?s work helps us see past our sports stars? exalted images into what those images?and their frailty?say about our society and ourselves.
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803216440
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
On the court and on the field they are the world?s winners, exhibiting a natural grace and prowess their adoring fans can only dream about. Yet so often, off the field our sports heroes lose their perspective, their balance, and ultimately their place. In a work as timely as the latest fracas on the basketball court or the most recent drug-induced scandal in the dugout, Stanley H. Teitelbaum looks into the circumstances behind many star athletes? precipitous fall from grace. ΓΈ In his psychotherapy practice, Teitelbaum has worked extensively with professional athletes and sports agents?work he draws on here for insight into the psyche of sports figures and the off-the-field challenges they face. Considering both historical and current cases, he shows how, in many instances, the very factors that elevate athletes to superstardom contribute to their downfall. An evenhanded and honest look at athletes who have faltered, Teitelbaum?s work helps us see past our sports stars? exalted images into what those images?and their frailty?say about our society and ourselves.
Public Opinion
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 770
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 770
Book Description
European Heroes
Author: Pierre Lanfranchi
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135238987
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
Historians of popular culture have recently been addressing the role of myth, and now it is time that social historians of sport also examined it. The contributors to this collection of essays explore the symbolic meanings that have been attached to sport in Europe by considering some of the mythic heroes who have dominated the sporting landscapes of their own countries. The ambition is to understand what these icons stood for in the eyes of those who watched or read about these vessels into which poured all manner of gender, class and patriotic expectations.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135238987
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
Historians of popular culture have recently been addressing the role of myth, and now it is time that social historians of sport also examined it. The contributors to this collection of essays explore the symbolic meanings that have been attached to sport in Europe by considering some of the mythic heroes who have dominated the sporting landscapes of their own countries. The ambition is to understand what these icons stood for in the eyes of those who watched or read about these vessels into which poured all manner of gender, class and patriotic expectations.
Public Enemies, Public Heroes
Author: Jonathan Munby
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226550346
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
In this study of Hollywood gangster films, Jonathan Munby examines their controversial content and how it was subjected to continual moral and political censure. Beginning in the early 1930s, these films told compelling stories about ethnic urban lower-class desires to "make it" in an America dominated by Anglo-Saxon Protestant ideals and devastated by the Great Depression. By the late 1940s, however, their focus shifted to the problems of a culture maladjusting to a new peacetime sociopolitical order governed by corporate capitalism. The gangster no longer challenged the establishment; the issue was not "making it," but simply "making do." Combining film analysis with archival material from the Production Code Administration (Hollywood's self-censoring authority), Munby shows how the industry circumvented censure, and how its altered gangsters (influenced by European filmmakers) fueled the infamous inquisitions of Hollywood in the postwar '40s and '50s by the House Committee on Un-American Activities. Ultimately, this provocative study suggests that we rethink our ideas about crime and violence in depictions of Americans fighting against the status quo.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226550346
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
In this study of Hollywood gangster films, Jonathan Munby examines their controversial content and how it was subjected to continual moral and political censure. Beginning in the early 1930s, these films told compelling stories about ethnic urban lower-class desires to "make it" in an America dominated by Anglo-Saxon Protestant ideals and devastated by the Great Depression. By the late 1940s, however, their focus shifted to the problems of a culture maladjusting to a new peacetime sociopolitical order governed by corporate capitalism. The gangster no longer challenged the establishment; the issue was not "making it," but simply "making do." Combining film analysis with archival material from the Production Code Administration (Hollywood's self-censoring authority), Munby shows how the industry circumvented censure, and how its altered gangsters (influenced by European filmmakers) fueled the infamous inquisitions of Hollywood in the postwar '40s and '50s by the House Committee on Un-American Activities. Ultimately, this provocative study suggests that we rethink our ideas about crime and violence in depictions of Americans fighting against the status quo.
Soldier Heroes
Author: Graham Dawson
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415088824
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Presents a ground-breaking exploration of the imagining of masculinities in adventure stories, considering such great hero-figures as T.E. Lawrence and Henry Havelock. It traces a history from nineteenth century imperialism to the present
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415088824
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Presents a ground-breaking exploration of the imagining of masculinities in adventure stories, considering such great hero-figures as T.E. Lawrence and Henry Havelock. It traces a history from nineteenth century imperialism to the present
Catalogue of books in the lending department of the public library, Buckingham palace road
Author: London St. George, Hanover sq, publ. libr
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Public Library Journal
Author: Cardiff Free Libraries
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description