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Quiet contradictions of celebrity : Zinedine Zidane, image, sound, silence and fury
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Dauncey, H. and Morrey, Douglas (2008) Quiet contradictions of celebrity : Zinedine Zidane, image, sound, silence and fury. International Journal of Cultural Studies, Vol.11 (No.3). pp. 301-320. doi:10.1177/1367877908092587 ISSN 1367-8779.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1367877908092587
Abstract
The French soccer-player Zinedine Zidane is an emblematic sport star whose celebrity persona nevertheless remains opaque and open to debate. As a French citizen of Algerian origin, Zidane has come to embody many current French concerns over the integration of ethnic minorities and has, particularly since the World Cup Finals of 1998 and 2006, been subjected to intense scrutiny and interpretation. Despite such attention, however, he remains quietly inscrutable, the contradicting claims on his identity and celebrity persona compounding his own lack of self-reflection in a complex negotiation of significance. Assessing Zidane through the interlinkages of his hybrid identity, ethnicity, masculinity, morality and nationality reveals how he and his celebrity persona struggle to establish coherent or consistent meaning, and an analysis of his high-cultural representation in two recent French art-works throws light on how his sometimes violent behaviour in soccer and his emblematic celebrity ultimately interrogate causality and agency, as well as the sociocultural significance of sport stars.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Subjects: | P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) > PN1993 Motion Pictures | ||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > School of Modern Languages and Cultures > French Studies | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | International Journal of Cultural Studies | ||||
Publisher: | Sage Publications Ltd. | ||||
ISSN: | 1367-8779 | ||||
Official Date: | September 2008 | ||||
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Volume: | Vol.11 | ||||
Number: | No.3 | ||||
Number of Pages: | 20 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 301-320 | ||||
DOI: | 10.1177/1367877908092587 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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