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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
Contributor:
Briley, Ron, 1949-
Schoenecke, Michael K. (Michael Keith), 1949-
Carmichael, Deborah A., 1947-
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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