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Annie Savoy
Athletic Heroes
athletic identity formation
Athletic Ideology
Author_Deborah V. Tudor
Black Athletes
Black Baseball Players
Brigham Young University
Broken Back
Bun Toast
Campbell's Model
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celebrity athlete phenomenon
Cultural Interpellation
cultural representation in film
Deloris Jordan
Dizzy Dean
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gender-sensitive texts
Grey Ghost
Hollywood sports films
Limited Physical Dimensions
media portrayals of athletes
NBC Sport
Negro League
Negro League Teams
North Dallas Forty
race and gender studies
Ruth's Career
Sacrifice Fly
sociocultural impact of sports films
Sports Films
sports media analysis
Stepin Fetchit
team sports
Western culture
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780815329077
- Weight: 408g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 01 Sep 1997
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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This book analyzes the ways in which sport reflects, imitates, and questions cultural values. It examines the representation of team sports, heroes, race, families, and gender in films and other media. Analysis of the ways in which broadcast media and films create such images allows us to map the ways in which traditional cultural beliefs and practices resist and accommodate changes. Films about sport do not reproduce a simple, unified set of values-rather, they exhibit the complications of attempting to negotiate ideological contradictions. During the last 50 years, sports films have shifted from the heroic idealization of The Babe Ruth Story (1948) to films revealing complexities, controversies, and uncertainties within the sports world, like Everybody's All American (1988). These contradictions are especially strong in the areas of race and gender, which are related major changes in the traditional notion of the hero. The book traces the transformation of the image of the hero in sports films within the context of the development of the sports celebrity, epitomized by Michael Jordan.
