All-stars & movie stars : sports in film & history / edited by Ron Briley, Michael K. Schoenecke, and Deborah A. Carmichael.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Endless summer : consuming waves and surfing the frontier / Joan Ormrod -- "I'm against it!" : the Marx Brothers' Horse feathers as cultural critique, or, why big-time college football gives me a haddock / Daniel A. Nathan -- Bobby Jones, golf, and his instructional reels / Michael K. Schoenecke -- Televised golf and the creation of narrative / Harper Cossar / What's natural about it? : a baseball movie as introduction to key concepts in cultural studies / Latham Hunter -- You throw like a girl : sports and misogyny on the silver screen / Dayna B. Daniels -- As American as-- : filling in the gaps and recovering the narratives of America's forgotten heroes / Pellom McDaniels III / Basketball's great white hope and Ronald Reagan's America : Hoosiers / Ron Briley -- "Just some bum from the neighborhood" : the resolution of post-civil rights tension and heavyweight public sphere discourse in Rocky / Victoria A. Elmwood -- Fighting for manhood : Rocky and turn-of-the-century antimodernism / Clay Motley -- Do you believe in miracles? Whiteness, Hollywood, and a post-9/11 sports imagination / David J. Leonard -- An Olympic omnibus : international competition, cooperation, and politics in Visions of eight / David Scott Diffrient -- Why he must run : class, anger, and resistance in The loneliness of the long distance runner / John Hughson -- "Every nation needs a legend" : The miracle of Bern and the formation of a German postwar foundational myth / Tobias Hochscherf and Christoph Laucht.

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In addition to the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat, sports offer a versatile arena for discussion of class, race, gender, sexuality, and other social facets. All-Stars and Movie Stars: Sports in Film and History examines the interplay between sports films and the defining characteristics of the cultures from which they emerge. This important and unique collection will serve scholars of film, popular culture, and American history.

English.

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