Sporting Realities: Critical Readings of the Sports Documentary: Sports, Media, and Society
Editat de Samantha N. Sheppard, Travis Voganen Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 aug 2020
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.
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.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781496221797
ISBN-10: 1496221796
Pagini: 246
Ilustrații: Index
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.37 kg
Editura: Nebraska
Colecția University of Nebraska Press
Seria Sports, Media, and Society
Locul publicării:United States
ISBN-10: 1496221796
Pagini: 246
Ilustrații: Index
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.37 kg
Editura: Nebraska
Colecția University of Nebraska Press
Seria Sports, Media, and Society
Locul publicării:United States
Notă biografică
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.
Cuprins
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
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
Recenzii
"With its broad look at different examples from creative, aesthetic, industrial and geographical points of view, Sporting Realities aims to be a reference point in sports and television studies more generally by offering an anthology on the cultural dynamics of memory and sport’s representation within contemporary audiovisual systems."—Paolo Carelli, Critical Studies in Television: The International Journal of Television Studies
“The contributions to this anthology offer a critical and methodologically varied take on sport documentaries’ industrial, aesthetic, and ideological potentials. They combine detailed textual analysis with pertinent theoretical and historical reflection. Thus, they give a convincing account of both the specific formal procedures of sports documentaries and their strong entanglement with much broader dynamics, be it memorial culture, intersectionality, or branding strategies.”—Markus Stauff, coeditor of Filmgenres: Sportfilm
“This collection fills a void in sports studies and film studies. It represents a bridge between these two important fields at a moment when sports documentaries are taking up more and more cultural space. It represents an important scholarly intervention that will propel conversations about these specific films, about the broader genre, and about the narratives that circulate in and around these representations. At the same time, this book will be useful for classes, providing critical tools for discussing a diversity of sports documentary films.”—David J. Leonard, author of Playing While White: Privilege and Power on and off the Field
Descriere
Sporting Realities is a collection that explores the sports documentary’s cultural meanings, aesthetic practices, industrial and commercial dimensions, and political contours across historical, social, medium-specific, and geographic contexts.