Sporting Realities
University of Nebraska Press (Verlag)
978-1-4962-1757-8 (ISBN)
Despite the increasing number of popular and celebrated sports documentaries in contemporary culture, such as ESPN’s 30 for 30 series, there has been little scholarly engagement with this genre. Sports documentaries, like all films, do not merely showcase objective reality but rather construct specific versions of sporting culture that serve distinct economic, industrial, institutional, historical, and sociopolitical ends ripe for criticism, contextualization, and exploration.
Sporting Realities brings together a diverse group of scholars to probe the sports documentary’s cultural meanings, aesthetic practices, industrial and commercial dimensions, and political contours across historical, social, medium-specific, and geographic contexts. It considers and critiques the sports documentary’s visible and powerful position in contemporary culture and forges novel connections between the study of nonfiction media and sport.
Samantha N. Sheppard is Mary Armstrong Meduski ’80 Assistant Professor of Cinema and Media Studies at Cornell University. She is the author of Sporting Blackness: Race, Embodiment, and Critical Muscle Memory on Screen and coeditor of From Madea to Media Mogul: Theorizing Tyler Perry. Travis Vogan is an associate professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication and the Department of American Studies at the University of Iowa. He is the author of ABC Sports: The Rise and Fall of Network Sports Television and ESPN: The Making of the Sports Media Empire.
Introduction
Samantha N. Sheppard and Travis Vogan
1. The Documentary as “Quality” Sports Television
Branden Buehler
2. Intersectionality in Venus Vs.
Aaron Baker
3. No Girls Allowed! Documenting Female Reporters as Threats in Let Them Wear Towels
Korryn D. Mozisek
4. Documenting Difference: Gay Athletes of Color, Binary Representation, and the Sports Documentary
Evan Brody
5. To the (Black) Athlete Dying Young: Documenting and Mythologizing Len Bias and Ben Wilson
Justin Hudson
6. Protest and Public Memory: Documenting the 1968 Summer Olympic Games
Emily Plec and Shaun M. Anderson
7. Of Friends and Foes: Remembering Yugoslavia in Sport Documentaries
Dario Brentin and David Brown
8. “Measuring Up”: Fathers, Sons, and the Economy of Death in Mountain Film Documentaries
Ray Gamache
9. Sports Album’s Replay: Newsreel Compilations, Early Television, and the Recirculation of Sport History
Alex Kupfer
10. HBO Sports: Docu-Branding Boxing’s Past and Present
Travis Vogan
Contributors
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 03.08.2020 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Sports, Media, and Society |
| Zusatzinfo | Index |
| Verlagsort | Lincoln |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV |
| Weitere Fachgebiete ► Sportwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4962-1757-8 / 1496217578 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4962-1757-8 / 9781496217578 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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