Sporting Realities: Critical Readings of the Sports Documentary (Sports, Media, and Society)

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Synopsis
Despite the increasing number of popular and celebrated sports documentaries in contemporary culture, such as ESPN&’s 30 for 30 series, there has been little scholarly engagement with this genre. Sports documentaries, like all films, do not merely showcase objective reality but rather construct specific versions of sporting culture that serve distinct economic, industrial, institutional, historical, and sociopolitical ends ripe for criticism, contextualization, and exploration.Sporting Realities brings together a diverse group of scholars to probe the sports documentary&’s cultural meanings, aesthetic practices, industrial and commercial dimensions, and political contours across historical, social, medium-specific, and geographic contexts. It considers and critiques the sports documentary&’s visible and powerful position in contemporary culture and forges novel connections between the study of nonfiction media and sport.
Copyright:
2020

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
258 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781496222459
Related ISBNs:
9781496217578
Publisher:
Nebraska Department of Motor Vehicles
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
University of Nebraska Press
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
History, Entertainment, Nonfiction, Sports, Art and Architecture
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Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:
This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:
Samantha N. Sheppard
Edited by:
Travis Vogan

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