Visual Economies Of/In Motion: Sport and Film

ISBN-13: 9780820478524 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 274 str.

Denzin, Norman K.

Opis

Sport films have been central to American cinema, playing an increasingly important role in the communication of a commonsense understanding of race, gender, class, history, and social relations. Oddly, scholars have neglected sport films and their significance. Offering a comparative, theoretically grounded, and interdisciplinary approach, Visual Economies of/in Motion marks a novel and important point of departure in sport studies and cultural studies. It brings together a dozen essays on feature films and documentaries to probe the articulation of ideologies and identities, play and power, and sporting worlds and social fields.

Spis treści

Contents: David J. Leonard/C. Richard King: Screening the Social: An Introduction to Sport Cinema - W.R. Marshall/Julio Rodriguez: Floating: Surfing and Signification - Michael D. Giardina: Bending it like Beckham in the Global Popular: Stylish Hybridity, Performativity, and the Politics of Representation - Grant Farred: The Double Temporality of Lagaan: Cultural Struggle and Postcolonialism - C. Keith Harrison: From Boyz (N the Hood) to Men: Cultural Perceptions of AfricanAmerican «Ballers» and «Scholar Ballers» in Higher Education - Jared Sexton: The Field of Fantasy and the Court of Appeal: On Friday Night Lights and Coach Carter - C. Richard King: Vanishing Points: Reframing Indianness in Recent Sport Documentaries - Kyle W. Kusz: Dogtown and Z-Boys: White Particularity and the New, New Cultural Racism - David J. Leonard: «Is This Heaven?» White Sporting Masculinities and the Hollywood Imagination - Dave Zirin: Crass Slipper Fits Cinderella Man - Holly Kruse: Media, Marketing, and Memory: Sport Promotion and Seabiscuit - C. Richard King/David J. Leonard: Epilogue: Why Sports Films Matter; Or, Refusing a Happy Ending - David J. Leonard/C. Richard King: Appendix. Teaching Sport Film: Pedagogic Resources.

O autorze

The Editors: C. Richard King, Associate Professor of Comparative Ethnic Studies at Washington State University, has written extensively on the changing contours of race in post-civil rights America, the colonial legacies and postcolonial predicaments of American culture, and struggles over Indianness in public culture. He received his Ph.D. in cultural anthropology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is also the author/editor of several books, including Team Spirits: The Native American Mascot Controversy (a CHOICE 2001 Outstanding Academic Title) and Postcolonial America.
David J. Leonard is Assistant Professor in the Department of Comparative Ethnic Studies at Washington State University. He received his Ph.D. in ethnic studies from the University of California at Berkeley. He has written on sports, video games, film, and social movements, appearing in both popular and academic mediums.