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Seeing Stars: Sports Celebrity, Identity, and Body Culture in Modern Japan Hardcover - 2015
by Dennis J. Frost
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- Title Seeing Stars: Sports Celebrity, Identity, and Body Culture in Modern Japan
- Author Dennis J. Frost
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition Harvard East Asa
- Pages 352
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harvard University Press, Cambridge
- Date 02/08/2015
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780674056107 / 0674056108
- Weight 1.41 lbs (0.64 kg)
- Dimensions 9 x 6.3 x 1.2 in (22.86 x 16.00 x 3.05 cm)
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- Cultural Region: Asian - Japanese
- Library of Congress subjects Public opinion - Japan, National characteristics, Japanese
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2010045149
- Dewey Decimal Code 796.095
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United States: Harvard University, Asia Center. 2010. Black and white illustrations, 337pp, bibliography, index, very good in dustjacket. 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…
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