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

by 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 sports stars are socially constructed phenomena, the products of both particular historical moments and broader discourses of celebrity.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674056108
• ISBN13: 9780674056107
• Release Date: February 2011
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.0"