Bibliograph

Sports movies, Lester D. Friedman

Type

Label

Sports movies, Lester D. Friedman

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references, filmography, and index

resource.governmentPublication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Sports movies

Nature of contents

bibliographyfilmographies

Oclc number

1107156198

Responsibility statement

Lester D. Friedman

Series statement

Quick takes : movies and popular culture

Summary

"Sports and particular sporting events have been prominent subjects for American films from Edison's kinetograph shorts of the 1890s to the seemingly endless Rocky franchise. Yet, though we recognize the sports film as a profitable popular entertainment vehicle, these films do not preclude their function as grounds of discourse of defining issues in class, race, gender, and sexuality. Major cultural controversies are, in one form or another, ongoing components of the ever-changing montage of sports depicted in movies. The Sports Film argues that while sports films usually affirm athletic completion as meritocracy, they simultaneously point out the failure of society, in general, to operate in the same manner. Lester D. Friedman pushes forward his argument by discussing the history of the sports film and then focusing individual chapters on the most popular American sports: baseball, basketball, football, and boxing. Movies analyzed include A League of their Own, Remember the Titans, Million Dollar Baby, and more"--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

Baseball movies -- Basketball movies -- Football movies -- Boxing movies -- The sporting life

Classification