Sporting Blackness

Race, Embodiment, and Critical Muscle Memory on Screen

Samantha N. Sheppard (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

264 Seiten

2020
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-30779-7 (ISBN)

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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.

Samantha N. Sheppard is the Mary Armstrong Meduski ’80 Assistant Professor of Cinema and Media Studies in the Department of Performing and Media Arts at Cornell University.

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INTRODUCTION: SPORTING BLACKNESS AND CRITICAL MUSCLE MEMORY ON SCREEN
1. HISTORICAL CONTESTANTS IN BLACK SPORTS DOCUMENTARIES
2. RACIAL ICONICITY AND THE TRANSMEDIA BLACK ATHLETE
3. BLACK FEMALE INCOMMENSURABILITY AND ATHLETIC GENDERS
4. THE REVOLT OF THE CINEMATIC BLACK ATHLETE
CONCLUSTION: THE FITNESS OF SPORTING BLACKNESS

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Erscheinungsdatum	09.06.2020
Zusatzinfo	25 b-w illustrations
Verlagsort	Berkerley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	363 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Tanzen / Tanzsport
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	0-520-30779-8 / 0520307798
ISBN-13	978-0-520-30779-7 / 9780520307797
Zustand	Neuware