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

Publication Info. Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, [2008]
©2008

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 318 pages) : illustrations.
Series Film & history
Film & history (Lexington, Ky.)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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.
Note Print version record.
Subject Sports in motion pictures.
Sports.
PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- Reference.
Sports in motion pictures. (OCoLC)fst01130685
Sports. (OCoLC)fst01130432
Sport.
Sportart.
Motiv (Film)
Film.
Sportfilm.
Gesellschaft.
Kulturleben.
Nationalbewusstsein.
Film.
Sport <Motiv>.
Chronological Term Geschichte 1950-2000
Geschichte 1950-2007
Added Author Briley, Ron, 1949-
Schoenecke, Michael K. (Michael Keith), 1949-
Carmichael, Deborah A., 1947-
Added Title All-stars and movie stars
Other Form: Print version: All-stars & movie stars. Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, ©2008 9780813124483 0813124484 (DLC) 2008006084 (OCoLC)181601267
ISBN 9780813172613 (electronic bk.)
0813172616 (electronic bk.)
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