Wiedenfeld

Hollywood Sports Movies and the American Dream

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Produktbeschreibung

In Hollywood Sports Movies and the American Dream, author Grant Wiedenfeld argues that sports films are a progressive critique of anti-democratic tendencies in the post-Civil Rights era and a site of multiculturalism's origin.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sydney University Press
• Seitenzahl: 292
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Mai 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780197624920
• ISBN-10: 0197624928
• Artikelnr.: 66116715

Autorenporträt

Grant Wiedenfeld earned a PhD from Yale University in Comparative Literature and Film & Media Studies. He taught courses on sports and cinema in Yale's English Department and Film Studies Program before being hired at Sam Houston State University, where he is currently Associate Professor of Media and Culture. Previous publications include studies of Gustave Flaubert, D.W. Griffith, and André Bazin.

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgments
* 1. Introduction: America's Civic Screen
* 2. Rocky (1976): Tenderhearted Community and Racial Moderation in
Bicentennial America
* 3. Slap Shot (1977): Deindustrialization, Goon Masculinity, and
Yankee-Doodle-Disco Patriotism
* 4. The Natural (1984): Farm Crisis and Minority Culture in a New Deal
Legend
* 5. White Men Can't Jump (1992): "Winning and Losing is One Big
Organic Globule"
* 6. A League of their Own (1992): Egalitarian Women and Sideline Men
* 7. Ali (2001): Actions of the People's Champion
* 8. Conclusion
* Bibliography
* Index