In 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. Written by a range of scholarly contributors
from multiple disciplines, The Circus Is in Town: Sport, Celebrity,
and Spectacle 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. Contributions 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.
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