Hollywood sports movies and the American dream / Grant Wiedenfeld.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wiedenfeld, Grant, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sports films--History and criticism.

Sports films.

Motion pictures--United States--History--20th century.

Motion pictures.

Sports in motion pictures.

Sports in popular culture.

Motion pictures--Political aspects--United States.

Popular culture--United States--History--20th century.

Popular culture.

United States--Politics and government--20th century.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (297 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2022]

Summary:

In 'Hollywood Sports Movies and the American Dream', author Grant Wiedenfeld argues that sports films are a progressive critique of anti-democratic tendencies in the post-Civil Rights era and a site of multiculturalism's origin.

Contents:

Cover

Hollywood Sports Movies and the American Dream

Copyright

Contents

Acknowledgments

1. Introduction: America's Civic Screen

2. Rocky (1976): Tenderhearted Community and Racial Moderation in Bicentennial America

3. Slap Shot (1977): Deindustrialization, Goon Masculinity, and Yankee-​Doodle-​Disco Patriotism

4. The Natural (1984): Farm Crisis and Minority Culture in a New Deal Legend

5. White Men Can't Jump (1992): "Winning and Losing Is One Big Organic Globule"

6. A League of Their Own (1992): Egalitarian Women and Sideline Men

7. Ali (2001): Actions of the People's Champion

8. Conclusion: Five Issues

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on April 11, 2022).

Also issued in print: 2022.

ISBN:

0-19-762496-0

0-19-762494-4

0-19-762495-2