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All-stars & movie stars : sports in film & history / edited by Ron Briley, Michael K. Schoenecke, and Deborah A. Carmichael.
Van Pelt Library PN1995.9.S67 A45 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Film & history (Lexington, Ky.)
- Film & history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sports in motion pictures.
- Sports.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 318 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Other Title:
- All-stars and movie stars
- Place of Publication:
- Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, [2008]
- Contents:
- Part 1 Sport as Cultural Production and Representation
- Endless Summer: Consuming Waves and Surfing the Frontier / Joan Ormrod 17
- "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 40
- Bobby Jones, Golf, and His Instructional Reels / Michael K. Schoenecke 55
- Televised Golf and the Creation of Narrative / Harper Cossar 64
- What's Natural about It?: A Baseball Movie as Introduction to Key Concepts in Cultural Studies / Latham Hunter 86
- Part 2 Masculinity, Misogyny, and Race in Sports Films
- You Throw Like a Girl: Sports and Misogyny on the Silver Screen / Dayna B. Daniels 105
- As American As ...: Filling in the Gaps and Recovering the Narratives of America's Forgotten Heroes / Pellom McDaniels III 129
- Basketball's Great White Hope and Ronald Reagan's America: Hoosiers / Ron Briley 155
- "Just Some Bum from the Neighborhood": The Resolution of Post-Civil Rights Tension and Heavyweight Public Sphere Discourse in Rocky / Victoria A. Elmwood 172
- Fighting for Manhood: Rocky and Turn-of-the-Century Antimodernism / Clay Motley 199
- Part 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 219
- An Olympic Omnibus: International Competition, Cooperation, and Politics in Visions of Eight / David Scott Diffrient 237
- Why He Must Run: Class, Anger, and Resistance in The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner / John Hughson 261
- "Every Nation Needs a Legend": The Miracle of Bern and the Formation of a German Postwar Foundational Myth / Tobias Hochscherf, Christoph Laucht 279.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780813124483
- 0813124484
- OCLC:
- 181601267
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