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Sporting blackness race, embodiment, and critical muscle memory on screen
"Sporting Blackness examines issues of race and representation in sports films, exploring what it means to embody, perform, play out, and contest blackness by representations of Black athletes on screen. By presenting new critical terms, Sheppard analyzes not only "skin in the game,"...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Oakland, California
University of California Press
[2020]
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | "Sporting Blackness examines issues of race and representation in sports films, exploring what it means to embody, perform, play out, and contest blackness by representations of Black athletes on screen. By presenting new critical terms, Sheppard analyzes not only "skin in the game," or how racial representation shapes the genre's imagery, but also "skin in the genre," or the formal consequences of blackness on the sport film genre's modes, codes, and conventions. Through a rich interdisciplinary approach, Sheppard argues that representations of Black sporting bodies contain "critical muscle memories," embodied, kinesthetic, and cinematic histories that go beyond a film's plot to index, circulate, and reproduce broader narratives about Black sporting and non-sporting experiences in American society"-- |
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| Item Description: | "The George Gund Foundation imprint in African American studies" |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xvi, 250 pages) illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 0520973852 9780520973855 |