{"product_id":"the-circus-is-in-town-sport-celebrity-and-spectacle-hardcover","title":"The Circus Is in Town: Sport, Celebrity, and Spectacle - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLisa Doris Alexander\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eJoel Nathan Rosen\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eDavid C. Ogden\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContributions by Lisa Doris Alexander, Matthew H. Barton, Andrew C. Billings, Carlton Brick, Ted M. Butryn, Brian Carroll, Arthur T. Challis, Roxane Coche, Curtis M. Harris, Jay Johnson, Melvin Lewis, Jack Lule, Rory Magrath, Matthew A. Masucci, Andrew McIntosh, Jorge E. Moraga, Leigh M. Moscowitz, David C. Ogden, Joel Nathan Rosen, Kevin A. Stein, and Henry Yu \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this fifth book on sport and the nature of reputation, editors Lisa Doris Alexander and Joel Nathan Rosen have tasked their contributors with examining reputation from the perspective of celebrity and spectacle, which in some cases can be better defined as scandal. The subjects chronicled in this volume have all proven themselves to exist somewhere on the spectacular spectrum--the spotlight seemed always to gravitate toward them. All have displayed phenomenal feats of athletic prowess and artistry, and all have faced a controversy or been thrust into a situation that grows from age-old notions of the spectacle. Some handled the hoopla like the champions they are, or were, while others struggled and even faded amid the hustle and flow of their runaway celebrity. While their individual narratives are engrossing, these stories collectively paint a portrait of sport and spectacle that offers context and clarity. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Written by a range of scholarly contributors from multiple disciplines, \u003ci\u003eThe Circus Is in Town: Sport, Celebrity, and Spectacle\u003c\/i\u003e contains careful analysis of such megastars as LeBron James, Tonya Harding, David Beckham, Shaquille O'Neal, Maria Sharapova, and Colin Kaepernick. This final volume of a project that has spanned the first three decades of the twenty-first century looks to sharpen questions regarding how it is that reputations of celebrity athletes are forged, maintained, transformed, repurposed, destroyed, and at times rehabilitated. The subjects in this collection have been driven by this notion of the spectacle in ways that offer interesting and entertaining inquiry into the arc of athletic reputations.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLisa Doris Alexander \u003c\/b\u003eis associate professor in Wayne State University's Department of African American Studies. She is author of the books \u003ci\u003eExpanding the Black Film Canon: Race and Genre Across Six Decades \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eWhen Baseball Isn't White, Straight, and Male: The Media and Difference in the National Pastime\u003c\/i\u003e. Her work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eBlack Ball: A Journal of the Negro Leagues\u003c\/i\u003e;\u003ci\u003e NINE: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture\u003c\/i\u003e;\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ethe \u003ci\u003eJournal of American History\u003c\/i\u003e;\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand the\u003ci\u003e Journal of Popular Film and Television\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cb\u003eJoel Nathan Rosen \u003c\/b\u003eis associate professor of sociology at Moravian College in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. He is author of \u003ci\u003eThe Erosion of the American Sporting Ethos: Shifting Attitudes Toward Competition\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eFrom New Lanark to Mound Bayou: Owenism in the Mississippi Delta\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand coauthor of \u003ci\u003eBlack Baseball, Black Business: Race Enterprise and the Fate of the Segregated Dollar\u003c\/i\u003e, published by University Press of Mississippi. He is founding coeditor of a five-volume collection that explores the forging and maintenance of the reputations of celebrity athletes: \u003ci\u003eFame to Infamy: Race, Sport, and the Fall from Grace\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eA Locker Room of Her Own: Celebrity, Sexuality, and Female Athletes\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eReconstructing Fame: Sport, Race, and Evolving Reputations\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eMore than Cricket and Football: International Sport and the Challenge of Celebrity\u003c\/i\u003e;\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Circus Is in Town: Sport, Celebrity, and Spectacle\u003c\/i\u003e, all published by University Press of Mississippi.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 332\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.88 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 04, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42099630407815,"sku":"9781496836502","price":198.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/0d2b7e5c6a5aa1078f7c978859180278.webp?v=1732376163","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/the-circus-is-in-town-sport-celebrity-and-spectacle-hardcover","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}