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Global Sign, Shared Meaning? Kobe Bryant’s Life and Its Representation from the USA to France

This article examines the media representation of Kobe Bryant’s life in the media and his meaning as a global sign, both in France and the USA. It analyzes the representation of Bryant in French magazine 5 Majeur to highlight the specificities of the French media coverage of the NBA. In doing so, th...

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Autor principal: Descamps, Yann
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer US 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8254057/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34248443
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12111-021-09539-1
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spelling pubmed-82540572021-07-06 Global Sign, Shared Meaning? Kobe Bryant’s Life and Its Representation from the USA to France Descamps, Yann J Afr Am Stud (New Brunsw) Articles This article examines the media representation of Kobe Bryant’s life in the media and his meaning as a global sign, both in France and the USA. It analyzes the representation of Bryant in French magazine 5 Majeur to highlight the specificities of the French media coverage of the NBA. In doing so, this article reconsiders Kobe Bryant’s story, its meaning to people in the USA and France, but also what it shows about evolving societal communications. Springer US 2021-07-03 2021 /pmc/articles/PMC8254057/ /pubmed/34248443 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12111-021-09539-1 Text en © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2021 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.
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