Screen LibraryThe US sports film : a genre of American dream time /
"Through close readings of a number of US team sports movies from Knute Rockne All American (1940) to We Are Marshall (2006), this monograph proposes to grasp the genre of the sports film, its politics and its historicity by how these movies render the American Dream an audiovisual discourse of...
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| Main Authors: | |
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| Published: |
De Gruyter,
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| Publisher Address: | Berlin : |
| Publication Dates: | [2023] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
Cinepoetics,
volume 11 |
| Subjects: | |
| Summary: |
"Through close readings of a number of US team sports movies from Knute Rockne All American (1940) to We Are Marshall (2006), this monograph proposes to grasp the genre of the sports film, its politics and its historicity by how these movies render the American Dream an audiovisual discourse of time as a community-building crystallization of past and future."--Page 4 of cover. |
| Carrier Form: | xiii, 294 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [267]-280) and indexes. |
| ISBN: |
9783110757019 311075701X |
| Index Number: | PN1995 |
| CLC: | J971.6 |
| Call Number: | J971.6/G876 |