{"product_id":"sports-movies-quick-takes-movies-popular-culture-9780813599878","title":"Sports Movies Quick Takes Movies  Popular Culture","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSports Movies\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This compact book packs a huge punch! Engaging and illustrative, \u003ci\u003eSports Movies\u003c\/i\u003e 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 *\u003cbr\u003e\"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 *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents\u003cbr\u003e Introduction \u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBaseball Movies\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBasketball Movies\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFootball Movies\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBoxing Movies\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Sporting Life:\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Further Reading\u003cbr\u003e Works Cited\u003cbr\u003e Selected Filmography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e  ","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405803987287,"sku":"9780813599878","price":53.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780813599878.jpg?v=1730493677","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/sports-movies-quick-takes-movies-popular-culture-9780813599878","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}