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All-Stars and Movie Stars : Sports in Film and History.
In addition to the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat, sports offer a versatile arena for discussion of class, race, gender, sexuality, and other social facets. All-Stars and Movie Stars: Sports in Film and History examines the interplay between sports films and the defining characteristics o...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lexington :
The University Press of Kentucky,
2015.
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| Colección: | Film and History.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Sports as Cultural Production and Representation; Masculinity, Misogyny, and Race in Sport; National Identity and Political Confrontation in Sports Competition; Filmography; Notes; Part One: Sport as Cultural Production and Representation; Endless Summer: Consuming Waves and Surfing the Frontier; Surf Exploitation and the Teenage Consumer; The Development and Commodification of Californian Surfing; The Endless Summer: Constructing the Known/Unknown.
- The Endless Summer: Surfing the Frontier, Selling the WaveNotes; ""I'm Against It!"": The Marx Brothers' Horse Feathers as Cultural Critique; or, Why Big-Time College Football Gives Me a Haddock; Notes; Bobby Jones, Golf, and His Instructional Reels; Works Cited; Televised Golf and the Creation of Narrative; History; Form and Narrative; Discussion; Notes; Works Cited; What's Natural about It?: A Baseball Movie as Introduction to Key Concepts in Cultural Studies; What's Natural about It? Getting Started with Ideology; Roy Hobbs as America: Reading Metaphoric Characterization.
- New Incarnations of Old Mythologies: Celebrity, Fame, and VisibilityRepresentations of Gender: Natural Archetypes and Patriarchies; Notes; Works Cited; Part Two: Masculinity, Misogyny, and Race in Sports Films; You Throw Like a Girl: Sports and Misogyny on the Silver Screen; Setting the Scene; All Women Are Not Equal; Nationalism and Olympic Rebirth; Lights, Camera, Action; Sports on the Silver Screen; The All-American Hero; The Distaff Side; Women Weaken Legs
- Ball Players? I Haven't Got Ball Players.
- We're Honored to Have the Lady Athlete
- Gender Slurs.
- Girls Are the Worst!The Only Thing Worse Is Bein' a Fag; The Critic's Corner; That's a Wrap!; Works Cited; As American As ... : Filling in the Gaps and Recovering the Narratives of America's Forgotten Heroes; More than a Game: Challenging White Supremacy through Narrative Performances; Before the Year All Hell Broke Loose: Black Baseball and the Coming of Jackie Robinson; Keeping the Legacy of Black Baseball Alive; Notes; Works Cited; Basketball's Great White Hope and Ronald Reagan's America: Hoosiers; Notes.
- ""Just Some Bum from the Neighborhood"": The Resolution of Post-Civil Rights Tension and Heavyweight Public Sphere Discourse in RockyRocky's Historical Context: The Post-Vietnam Predicament; Ideology and the Boxing Film: The Industrial Yeoman of the Urban Frontier; Discursive Arenas: Boxing Ring as Metaphor for Civic Exchange; Notes; Works Cited; Fighting for Manhood: Rocky and Turn-of-the-Century Antimodernism; Note; Works Cited; Part Three: National Identity and Political Confrontation in Sports Competition.