{"product_id":"sporting-realities-9781496221797","title":"Sporting Realities","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eDespite the increasing number of popular and celebrated sports documentaries in contemporary culture, such as ESPN’s \u003ci\u003e30 for 30\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSporting Realities\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u0026lt;\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"With its broad look at different examples from creative, aesthetic, industrial and geographical points of view, \u003ci\u003eSporting Realities\u003c\/i\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eCritical Studies in Television: The International Journal of Television Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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 \u003ci\u003eFilmgenres: Sportfilm\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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 \u003ci\u003ePlaying While White: Privilege and Power on and off the Field\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e Samantha N. Sheppard and Travis Vogan\u003cbr\u003e 1. The Documentary as “Quality” Sports Television\u003cbr\u003e Branden Buehler\u003cbr\u003e 2. Intersectionality in \u003ci\u003eVenus Vs.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Aaron Baker\u003cbr\u003e 3. No Girls Allowed! Documenting Female Reporters as Threats in \u003ci\u003eLet Them Wear Towels\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Korryn D. Mozisek\u003cbr\u003e 4. Documenting Difference: Gay Athletes of Color, Binary Representation, and the Sports Documentary\u003cbr\u003e Evan Brody\u003cbr\u003e 5. To the (Black) Athlete Dying Young: Documenting and Mythologizing Len Bias and Ben Wilson\u003cbr\u003e Justin Hudson\u003cbr\u003e 6. Protest and Public Memory: Documenting the 1968 Summer Olympic Games\u003cbr\u003e Emily Plec and Shaun M. Anderson\u003cbr\u003e 7. Of Friends and Foes: Remembering Yugoslavia in Sport Documentaries\u003cbr\u003e Dario Brentin and David Brown\u003cbr\u003e 8. “Measuring Up”: Fathers, Sons, and the Economy of Death in Mountain Film Documentaries\u003cbr\u003e Ray Gamache\u003cbr\u003e 9. \u003ci\u003eSports Album\u003c\/i\u003e’s Replay: Newsreel Compilations, Early Television, and the Recirculation of Sport History\u003cbr\u003e Alex Kupfer\u003cbr\u003e 10. HBO Sports: Docu-Branding Boxing’s Past and Present\u003cbr\u003e Travis Vogan\u003cbr\u003e Contributors\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409231126871,"sku":"9781496221797","price":21.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781496221797.jpg?v=1730506061","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/sporting-realities-9781496221797","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}