Diego Maradona : a socio-cultural study / edited by Pablo Brescia and Mariano Paz.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brescia, Pablo, editor.

Paz, Mariano, editor.

Series:

Critical research in football

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mass media and sports.

Sports and globalization.

Soccer players--Argentina--Biography.

Soccer players.

Mass media.

Maradona, Diego, 1960-2020.

Maradona, Diego.

Maradona, Diego, 1960-2020--In mass media.

Argentina.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xiv, 265 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2023.

Summary:

"This is the first academic book in English to closely examine the life of Diego Maradona from socio-cultural perspectives, exploring how his status as an icon, a popular sporting hero and a political figurehead have been culturally constructed, reproduced, and manipulated. The book looks at representations of Maradona across a wide variety of media, including literature, cinema, popular music, printed and online press, and radio, and in different countries around the world, to cast new light on topics such as the instrumentality of sporting heroes and the links between sport, nationalism and ideology. It shows how the life of Maradona - from his origins in the barrio through to his rise to god-like status in Naples and as a postcolonial symbol of courage and resistance against imperial powers across the global south, alongside scandal and his fall from grace - powerfully illustrates themes such as the dynamics of gender, justice and affect that underpin the study of sport, culture and society. This is essential reading for anybody with an interest in football, sport studies, media studies, cultural studies or sociology"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction : the cultural significance of Maradona / Pablo Brescia and Mariano Paz

Bibliography on Maradona studies

Part I: global Maradona

Maradona and Argentina : four takes / Pablo Brescia and Mariano Paz

Maradona and Spain : mythologies of the hero narrative / David García Cames, translated by Muireann Prendergast

Maradona and Italy : the rise and fall of the man on his own / Pippo Russo, translated by Dolores Gadler

Maradona and Mexico : the ecstasy and the agony / Fernando Segura M. Trejo and John Williams

Maradona and Britain : an unforgettable affair / Raymond Boyle

Part II: representing Maradona

Maradona and literature : God is only human / Pablo Brescia

Maradona and cinema : biopic, documentary, art film / Mariano Paz

Maradona and music: soundscapes and echoes of the Maradonian song / Martín Virgili, translated by Dolores Gadler

Part III: reading and writing Maradona

Specters of Maradona : chronicle/fiction/autobiography/film / Ksenija Bilbija

The Maradona story : tropes in biography and autobiography / Alan Tomlinson

Argentinian feminism's in the light (and shadow) of Maradona / Gabriela Garton and Julia Hang

Deifying Diego : the church of Maradona and beyond / Luca Bifulco

Writing Maradona

One and all / Martín Kohan, translated by David Atkinson

God, the era, and the epic / Ana María Shua, translated by Allison Febo

Language and tears / Edgardo Scott, translated by Ana Terrazas Calero

Saint Diego Maradona? / María Rosa Lojo, translated by Allison Febo

M and M : to see or not to see / Patricio Pron, translated by Emma Byrne

Number ten in ten / Pedro Palou

Children of Maradona / Beatriz Sarlo, translated by Ana Terrazas Calero

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Diego Maradona

ISBN:

9781032052120

1032052120

9781032052090

1032052090

OCLC:

1322809992

Publisher Number:

99992229993