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Author:   Lester D. Friedman
Publisher:   Rutgers University Press
Imprint:   Rutgers University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 11.40cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 17.80cm
Weight:   0.254kg
ISBN:  

9780813599878

ISBN 10:   0813599873
Pages:   210
Publication Date:   13 March 2020
Recommended Age:   From 16 to 99 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Contents Introduction Baseball Movies Basketball Movies Football Movies Boxing Movies The Sporting Life: Conclusion Acknowledgments Further Reading Works Cited Selected Filmography Index  

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In this readable and insightful book, Lester Friedman invites readers to consider how movies about sport bring winners and losers into focus on the playing field and beyond. --Thomas P. Oates author of Football and Manliness: An Unauthorized Feminist Account of the NFL This compact book packs a huge punch! Engaging and illustrative, Sports Movies deftly tackles the widely popular genre of sports films. Lester Friedman skillfully unpacks the history, themes, and cultural significance of the genre while attending to the consequential ways race, class, gender, and sexuality come into play on and off the field. --Samantha Noelle Sheppard co-editor of From Madea to Media Mogul: Theorizing Tyler Perry

This compact book packs a huge punch! Engaging and illustrative, Sports Movies deftly tackles the widely popular genre of sports films. Lester Friedman skillfully unpacks the history, themes, and cultural significance of the genre while attending to the consequential ways race, class, gender, and sexuality come into play on and off the field. --Samantha Noelle Sheppard co-editor of From Madea to Media Mogul: Theorizing Tyler Perry

Author Information

Lester D. Friedman is emeritus professor and former chair of the Media and Society Program at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, New York. The author, co-author, and editor of over 20 books, he has written about Steven Spielberg, Arthur Penn, Peter Pan, Bonnie and Clyde, Frankenstein, medical movies, '70s American cinema, and Clint Eastwood.  

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