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Author: Charles Lemert (Wesleyan University)
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint: Polity Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 1.60cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.336kg
ISBN: 9780745628714
ISBN 10: 0745628710
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 18 August 2003
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
A brilliant meditation on celebrity and spectatorship and an astute cultural analysis of race and sport, Charles Lemert's Muhammad Ali is also an affectionate biography of one of the most significant figures of our age. Barry Glassner, University of Southern California, author of The Culture of Fear Ali's fame was launched on the tide of his astonishing athletic prowess, but it was borne along by the spurting cross-currents of culture, race and politics which boiled so fiercely during the 1960s and 1970s. Lemert is excellent on Ali in relation to these cross-currents, but he also dares to dive deeper, into the secret waters of myth, totem and taboo which still underlie more of human thought and feeling than we may like to admit ? This is a remarkably interesting and re-readable essay. Financial Times
A brilliant meditation on celebrity and spectatorship and an astute cultural analysis of race and sport, Charles Lemerta s Muhammad Ali is also an affectionate biography of one of the most significant figures of our age. Barry Glassner, University of Southern California, author of The Culture of Fear Alia s fame was launched on the tide of his astonishing athletic prowess, but it was borne along by the spurting cross--currents of culture, race and politics which boiled so fiercely during the 1960s and 1970s. Lemert is excellent on Ali in relation to these cross--currents, but he also dares to dive deeper, into the secret waters of myth, totem and taboo which still underlie more of human thought and feeling than we may like to admit ! This is a remarkably interesting and re--readable essay. Financial Times
A brilliant meditation on celebrity and spectatorship and an astute cultural analysis of race and sport, Charles Lemert's Muhammad Ali is also an affectionate biography of one of the most significant figures of our age. Barry Glassner, University of Southern California, author of The Culture of Fear Ali's fame was launched on the tide of his astonishing athletic prowess, but it was borne along by the spurting cross-currents of culture, race and politics which boiled so fiercely during the 1960s and 1970s. Lemert is excellent on Ali in relation to these cross-currents, but he also dares to dive deeper, into the secret waters of myth, totem and taboo which still underlie more of human thought and feeling than we may like to admit ? This is a remarkably interesting and re-readable essay. Financial Times
"A brilliant meditation on celebrity and spectatorship and an astute cultural analysis of race and sport, Charles Lemert's Muhammad Ali is also an affectionate biography of one of the most significant figures of our age." Barry Glassner, University of Southern California, author of The Culture of Fear "Ali's fame was launched on the tide of his astonishing athletic prowess, but it was borne along by the spurting cross-currents of culture, race and politics which boiled so fiercely during the 1960s and 1970s. Lemert is excellent on Ali in relation to these cross-currents, but he also dares to dive deeper, into the secret waters of myth, totem and taboo which still underlie more of human thought and feeling than we may like to admit ... This is a remarkably interesting and re-readable essay." Financial Times
Author Information
Charles Lemert is Professor of Sociology at Wesleyan University.
