1st Edition
Hollywood's Vision of Team Sports Heroes, Race, and Gender
By Deborah V. Tudor
Copyright 1997
230 Pages
by
Routledge
230 Pages
by
Routledge
216 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book analyzes the ways in which sport reflects, imitates, and questions cultural values. It examines the representation of team sports, heroes, race, families, and gender in films and other media. Analysis of the ways in which broadcast media and films create such images allows us to map the ways in which traditional cultural beliefs and practices resist and accommodate changes. Films about... Read more
I: The Athlete as Hero, Star and Celebrity; II: Images of the Athletic Hero in Films; III: Gender, the Family and Sports; IV: The Play of Race Within Sports Films; Conclusion
Biography
Deborah V. Tudor
