Sporting blackness: race, embodiment, and critical muscle memory on screen

Introduction : sporting blackness and critical muscle memory -- Historical contestants in black sports documentaries -- Racial iconicity and the transmedia black athlete -- Black female incommensurability and athletic genders -- The revolt of the cinematic black athlete -- Conclusion : the fitness o...

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1. Verfasser: Sheppard, Samantha N. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Oakland, California University of California Press [2020]
Schriftenreihe:A George Gund Foundation book in african studies
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Zusammenfassung:Introduction : sporting blackness and critical muscle memory -- Historical contestants in black sports documentaries -- Racial iconicity and the transmedia black athlete -- Black female incommensurability and athletic genders -- The revolt of the cinematic black athlete -- Conclusion : the fitness of sporting blackness
"Sporting Blackness examines issues of race and representation in sports films, exploring what it means to embody, perform, play out, and contest blackness by representations of Black athletes on screen. By presenting new critical terms, Sheppard analyzes not only "skin in the game," or how racial representation shapes the genre's imagery, but also "skin in the genre," or the formal consequences of blackness on the sport film genre's modes, codes, and conventions. Through a rich interdisciplinary approach, Sheppard argues that representations of Black sporting bodies contain "critical muscle memories," embodied, kinesthetic, and cinematic histories that go beyond a film's plot to index, circulate, and reproduce broader narratives about Black sporting and non-sporting experiences in American society"
Beschreibung:Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 227-240
Beschreibung:xvi, 250 Seiten 25 Illustrationen und Portraits 23 cm
ISBN:9780520307797
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