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Contesting Identities: Sports in American Film (Contemporary Film Directors (Cfd)) Book

Baker shows that even as sports films tackle socially constructed identities such as class, race, ethnicity, sexuality, and gender, they ultimately underscore transcendence of these identities through self-reliance. In addition to discussing the genre's recurring dramatic tropes, Baker also looks at the social and cinematic impacts of real-life sports figures from Jackie Robinson and Babe Didrikson Zaharias to Muhammad Ali and Michael Jordan.Read More

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  • 0252073541
  • 9780252073540
  • Aaron Baker
  • 25 April 2006
  • University of Illinois Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 176
  • First Paperback Edition
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