| Description |
ix, 318 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Film & history
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Film & history (Lexington, Ky.)
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Foreword / Douglas Noverr -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Ron Briley, Michael K. Schoenecke, and Deborah A. Carmichael -- pt. 1. Sport as cultural production and representation -- 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 -- pt. 2. Masculinity, misogyny, and race in sports films -- 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 -- pt. 3. National identity and political confrontation in sports competition -- 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 -- List of contributors -- Index. |
| Subject |
Sports in motion pictures.
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Sports in motion pictures. |
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Sports.
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Sports. |
| Added Author |
Briley, Ron, 1949-
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Schoenecke, Michael K. (Michael Keith), 1949-
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Carmichael, Deborah A., 1947-
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| Added Title |
All-stars and movie stars |
| ISBN |
9780813124483 hardback alkaline paper |
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0813124484 hardback alkaline paper |
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