The films covered in this volume include Viva Zapata (1952), On the Waterfront (1954), East of Eden (1954), Baby Doll (1956), A Face in the Crowd (1957), Splendor in the Grass (1961), America, ...America (1963), and The Last Tycoon (1976).
The Path Less Traveled Briley, Ron
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In this essay, I describe my history teaching career of over thirty years at Sandia Preparatory School in Albuquerque, New Mexico. I intended for the position to be temporary while I finished my ...dissertation and pursued academic employment. Instead, I forged a career in independent education, where I could combine teaching with scholarship—the best of both worlds.
Sports films are popular forms of entertainment around the world, but beyond simply amusing audiences, they also reveal much about class, race, gender, sexuality, and national identity. InAll-Stars ...and Movie Stars, Ron Briley, Michael K. Schoenecke, and Deborah A. Carmichael explore the interplay between sports films and critical aspects of our culture, examining them as both historical artifacts and building blocks of ideologies, values, and stereotypes.
The book covers not only Hollywood hits such asField of DreamsandMiraclebut also documentaries such asThe Journey of the African American Athleteand international cinema, such as the German filmThe Miracle of Bern. The book also explores television coverage of sports, commenting on the relationship of media to golf and offering a new perspective on the culture and politics behind the depictions of the world's most popular pastimes.
The first part of the book addresses how sports films represent the cultural events, patterns, and movements of the times in which they were set, as well as the effect of the media and athletic industry on the athletes themselves. Latham Hunter examines how the baseball classicThe Naturalreflects traditional ideas about gender, heroism, and nation, and Harper Cossar addresses how the production methods used in televised golf affect viewers. The second section deals with issues such as the growth of women's involvement in athletics, sexual preference in the sports world, and the ever-present question of race by looking at sports classics such asRocky, Hoosiers,andA League of Their Own.
Finally, the authors address the historical and present-day role sports play in the international and political arena by examining such films asVisions of EightandThe Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner. This important and unique collection illuminates the prominent role that sports play in society and how that role is reflected in film. Analysis of the depiction of sports in film and television provides a deeper understanding of the appeal that sports hold for people worldwide and of the forces behind the historic and cultural traditions linked to sports.
