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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...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lexington, Ky. :
University Press of Kentucky,
2008.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Endless summer : consuming waves and surfing the frontier / Joan Ormrod
- "I'm against it!" : the Marx Brothers' Horse feathers as cultural critique, or, why big-time college football gives me a haddock / Daniel A. Nathan
- Bobby Jones, golf, and his instructional reels / Michael K. Schoenecke
- Televised golf and the creation of narrative / Harper Cossar / What's natural about it? : a baseball movie as introduction to key concepts in cultural studies / Latham Hunter
- You throw like a girl : sports and misogyny on the silver screen / Dayna B. Daniels
- As American as-- : filling in the gaps and recovering the narratives of America's forgotten heroes / Pellom McDaniels III / Basketball's great white hope and Ronald Reagan's America : Hoosiers / Ron Briley
- "Just some bum from the neighborhood" : the resolution of post-civil rights tension and heavyweight public sphere discourse in Rocky / Victoria A. Elmwood
- Fighting for manhood : Rocky and turn-of-the-century antimodernism / Clay Motley
- Do you believe in miracles? Whiteness, Hollywood, and a post-9/11 sports imagination / David J. Leonard
- An Olympic omnibus : international competition, cooperation, and politics in Visions of eight / David Scott Diffrient
- Why he must run : class, anger, and resistance in The loneliness of the long distance runner / John Hughson
- "Every nation needs a legend" : The miracle of Bern and the formation of a German postwar foundational myth / Tobias Hochscherf and Christoph Laucht.