Contesting identities : sports in American film (Record no. 546239)

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International Standard Book Number 9780252073540
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Classification number 791.43655
Item number BAK
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Personal name Baker, Aaron
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Title Contesting identities : sports in American film
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Place of publication, distribution, etc. Urbana
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. University of Illinois Press, 2003.
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2003
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Extent 162p.
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Summary, etc. In Contesting Identities Aaron Baker examines how these cinematic representations of sports and athletes have evolved over time--from The Pinch Hitter and Buster Keaton's College to White Men Can't Jump, Jerry Maguire, and Girlfight. He focuses on how identities have been constructed and transcended in American society since the early twentieth century. Whether depicting team or individual sports, these films return to that most American of themes, the master narrative of self-reliance. Baker shows that even as sports films tackle socially constructed identities such as class, race, ethnicity, sexuality, and gender, they ultimately underscore transcendence of these identities through self-reliance. In addition to discussing the genre's recurring dramatic tropes, from the populist prizefighter to the hot-headed rebel to the "manly" female athlete, Baker also looks at the social and cinematic impacts of real-life sports figures from Jackie Robinson and Babe Didrikson Zaharias to Muhammad Ali and Michael Jordan
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Sports in motion pictures. Motion pictures -- United States.
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        Institute of English Institute of English Processing Center 27/05/2019 5 791.43655 BAK ENG15292 16/09/2022 27/07/2022 27/05/2019 Book