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Title Sporting realities : critical readings of the sports documentary / edited by Samantha N. Sheppard and Travis Vogan.

Publication Info. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2020]

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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Sports, media, and society
Sports, media, and society.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Documentary as "quality" sports television / Branden Buehler -- Intersectionality in Venus vs. / Aaron Baker -- No girls allowed! : documenting female reporters as threats in Let them wear towels / Korryn D. Mozisek -- Documenting difference : gay athletes of color, binary representation, and the sports documentary / Evan Brody -- To the (black) athlete dying young : documenting and mythologizing Len Bias and Ben Wilson / Justin Hudson -- Protest and public memory : documenting the 1968 Summer Olympic Games / Emily Plec and Shaun M. Anderson -- Of friends and foes : remembering Yugoslavia in sport documentaries / Dario Brentin and David Brown -- "Measuring up" : fathers, sons, and the economy of death in mountain film documentaries / Ray Gamache -- Sports album's replay : newsreel compilations, early television, and the re-circulation of sport history / Alex Kupfer -- HBO sports : docu-branding boxing's past and present / Travis Vogan.
Summary ""Sporting Realities" is a collection that explores the sports documentary's cultural meanings, aesthetic practices, industrial and commercial dimensions, and political contours across historical, social, medium-specific, and geographic contexts"-- Provided by publisher
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Subject Television broadcasting of sports.
Television broadcasting of sports.
Documentary television programs -- History and criticism.
Documentary television programs.
Sports films -- History and criticism.
Documentary films -- History and criticism.
Sports films.
Documentary films.
SPORTS & RECREATION -- History.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Added Author Sheppard, Samantha N., editor.
Vogan, Travis, editor.
Other Form: Print version: Sporting realities. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2020] 9781496217578 (DLC) 2019044482 (OCoLC)1151089320
ISBN 9781496222473 (electronic book)
1496222474 (electronic book)
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