All Stars and Movie Stars Sports in Film and History 1st Edition by Ron Briley, Michael K Schoenecke, Deborah A Carmichael ISBN 0813124484 9780813124483
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ISBN 10: 0813124484
ISBN 13: 9780813124483
Author: Ron Briley, Michael K Schoenecke, Deborah A Carmichael
Sports films are popular forms of entertainment around the world, but beyond simply amusing audiences, they also reveal much about class, race, gender, sexuality, and national identity. In All-Stars and Movie Stars, Ron Briley, Michael K. Schoenecke, and Deborah A. Carmichael explore the interplay between sports films and critical aspects of our culture, examining them as both historical artifacts and building blocks of ideologies, values, and stereotypes.
The book covers not only Hollywood hits such as Field of Dreams and Miracle but also documentaries such as The Journey of the African American Athlete and international cinema, such as the German film The Miracle of Bern. The book also explores television coverage of sports, commenting on the relationship of media to golf and offering a new perspective on the culture and politics behind the depictions of the world’s most popular pastimes.
The first part of the book addresses how sports films represent the cultural events, patterns, and movements of the times in which they were set, as well as the effect of the media and athletic industry on the athletes themselves. Latham Hunter examines how the baseball classic The Natural reflects traditional ideas about gender, heroism, and nation, and Harper Cossar addresses how the production methods used in televised golf affect viewers. The second section deals with issues such as the growth of women’s involvement in athletics, sexual preference in the sports world, and the ever-present question of race by looking at sports classics such as Rocky, Hoosiers, and A League of Their Own.
Finally, the authors address the historical and present-day role sports play in the international and political arena by examining such films as Visions of Eight and The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner. This important and unique collection illuminates the prominent role that sports play in society and how that role is reflected in film. Analysis of the depiction of sports in film and television provides a deeper understanding of the appeal that sports hold for people worldwide and of the forces behind the historic and cultural traditions linked to sports.
All Stars and Movie Stars Sports in Film and History 1st Table of contents:
Part One: Sport as Cultural Production and Representation
Endless Summer: Consuming Waves and Surfing the Frontier
Surf Exploitation and the Teenage Consumer
The Development and Commodification of Californian Surfing
The Endless Summer: Constructing the Known/Unknown
The Endless Summer: Surfing the Frontier, Selling the Wave
Notes
“I’m Against It!”: The Marx Brothers’ Horse Feathers as Cultural Critique; or, Why Big-Time College
Notes
Bobby Jones, Golf, and His Instructional Reels
Works Cited
Televised Golf and the Creation of Narrative
History
Form and Narrative
Discussion
Notes
Works Cited
What’s Natural about It?: A Baseball Movie as Introduction to Key Concepts in Cultural Studies
What’s Natural about It? Getting Started with Ideology
Roy Hobbs as America: Reading Metaphoric Characterization
New Incarnations of Old Mythologies: Celebrity, Fame, and Visibility
Representations of Gender: “Natural” Archetypes and Patriarchies
Notes
Works Cited
Part Two: Masculinity, Misogyny, and Race in Sports Films
You Throw Like a Girl: Sports and Misogyny on the Silver Screen
Setting the Scene
All Women Are Not Equal
Nationalism and Olympic Rebirth
Lights, Camera, Action
Sports on the Silver Screen
The “All-American” Hero
The Distaff Side
“Women Weaken Legs”
“Ball Players? I Haven’t Got Ball Players.”
“We’re Honored to Have the Lady Athlete”
Gender Slurs
Girls Are the Worst!
The Only Thing Worse Is Bein’ a Fag
The Critic’s Corner
That’s a Wrap!
Works Cited
As American As . . . : Filling in the Gaps and Recovering the Narratives of America’s Forgotten Hero
More than a Game: Challenging White Supremacy through Narrative Performances
Before the Year All Hell Broke Loose: Black Baseball and the Coming of Jackie Robinson
Keeping the Legacy of Black Baseball Alive
Notes
Works Cited
Basketball’s Great White Hope and Ronald Reagan’s America: Hoosiers
Notes
“Just Some Bum from the Neighborhood”: The Resolution of Post-Civil Rights Tension and Heavyweight P
Rocky’s Historical Context: The Post-Vietnam Predicament
Ideology and the Boxing Film: The Industrial Yeoman of the Urban Frontier
Discursive Arenas: Boxing Ring as Metaphor for Civic Exchange
Notes
Works Cited
Fighting for Manhood: Rocky and Turn-of-the-Century Antimodernism
Note
Works Cited
Part Three: National Identity and Political Confrontation in Sports Competition
Do You Believe in Miracles?: Whiteness, Hollywood, and a Post-9/11 Sports Imagination
Rememory: 9/11 and a Changing American Imagination
Why? The Importance of Studying White-Centered Sports Films
Miracle: A Found Nation
Inferior Athletes, Superior Teammates and Workers
No More Miracles
Works Cited
An Olympic Omnibus: International Competition, Cooperation, and Politics in Visions of Eight
A Producer’s Package
Warming Up and Cooling Down: Athletics as Metaphor for Cinematic Episodicity
Giving Out Golds: Spectatorial “Scorecards”
A Vision of the Future
Notes
Why He Must Run: Class, Anger, and Resistance in The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
Looking Back at “Angry Young Men”
The New Wave: The Angry Young Man on Film
Individualism, Collectivism, and the Sports Trope
The Rebellion of the Long Distance Runner
Colin Smith: Rebel with a Cause?
Work Cited
“Every Nation Needs a Legend”: The Miracle of Bern and the Formation of a German Postwar Foundationa
“Normalization” through Soccer? West Germany’s Quest for Acceptance
Soccer as a Means of Repressing the Nazi Past
Forging a German Collective Identity: The Unifying Power of Soccer
“Wir sind wieder wer!” The “Economic Miracle” and the German Version of the American Dream
Conclusion: 1954–2006
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