Contesting Identities: Sports in American Film - Aaron Baker - Books - University of Illinois Press - 9780252073540 - January 17, 2006
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Shows that sports films tackle socially constructed identities such as class, race, ethnicity, sexuality, and gender. In addition to discussing the genre's recurring dramatic tropes, this book looks at the social and cinematic impacts of real-life sports figures from Jackie Robinson and Babe Didrikson Zaharias to Muhammad Ali and Michael Jordan.


176 pages, 8

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released January 17, 2006
ISBN13 9780252073540
Publishers University of Illinois Press
Pages 176
Dimensions 229 × 154 × 15 mm   ·   268 g

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