Description
Book SynopsisSports Movies covers a broad spectrum of baseball, basketball, football, and boxing films. Describing the traditional formulas that have made these movies such crowd-pleasers, it also explores how the genre’s attitudes have changed over the years, especially regarding key issues like class, race, masculinity, and women in sports.
Trade Review"This compact book packs a huge punch! Engaging and illustrative,
Sports Movies deftly tackles the widely popular genre of sports films. Lester Friedman skillfully unpacks the history, themes, and cultural significance of the genre while attending to the consequential ways race, class, gender, and sexuality come into play on and off the field." -- Samantha Noelle Sheppard * co-editor of From Madea to Media Mogul: Theorizing Tyler Perry *
"In this readable and insightful book, Lester Friedman invites readers to consider how movies about sport bring winners and losers into focus on the playing field and beyond.” -- Thomas P. Oates * author of Football and Manliness: An Unauthorized Feminist Account of the NFL *
Table of ContentsContents
Introduction
- Baseball Movies
- Basketball Movies
- Football Movies
- Boxing Movies
- The Sporting Life:
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Further Reading
Works Cited
Selected Filmography
Index
