- Description
- 1 online resource.
- Summary
- "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"--
- Uniform Title
- Sporting blackness (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Sporting blackness (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Source of Description (note)
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher.
- Contents
- 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.
- ISBN
- 9780520973855
- 9780520307773 (canceled/invalid)
- 9780520307797 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2019059433
- OCLC
- ssj0002292103
- Author
Sheppard, Samantha N.
- Title
Sporting blackness [electronic resource] : race, embodiment, and critical muscle memory on screen / Samantha N. Sheppard.
- Imprint
Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2020]
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
- Note
Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher.
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Print version: Sheppard, Samantha N.. Sporting blackness Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2020] 9780520307773 (DLC) 2019059432