Gender and Genre in Sports Documentaries

Critical Essays
Herausgeber: Ingle, Zachary; Sutera, David M.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In Gender and Genre in Sports Documentaries, editors Zachary Ingle and David Sutera have assembled a collection of essays that look at the various aspects of sports documentaries. Some of the essays examine questions of gender and sexuality, specifically how masculinity and homosexuality are represented in sports documentaries. Other chapters focus on the characteristics of the sports documentary, exploring how aspects of aesthetics and narrative shape the form. Besides chapters on basketball, football, baseball, boxing, tennis, and auto racing documentaries, this volume also features essays on such marginalized sports as quad rugby, pro wrestling, live action role playing (LARPing), and bodybuilding.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Scarecrow Press
• Seitenzahl: 204
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 491g
• ISBN-13: 9780810887879
• ISBN-10: 0810887878
• Artikelnr.: 36628211

Autorenporträt

Zachary Ingle has published articles and reviews in journals such as Mass Communication and Society, Literature/Film Quarterly, Film-Philosophy, and Journal of American Culture. He is the editor of Robert Rodriguez: Interviews (2012). David M. Sutera is a film and media scholar and an independent filmmaker. Ingle and Sutera are the editors of Identity and Myth in Sports Documentaries (Scarecrow, 2013).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Introduction, Zachary Ingle and David M. Sutera AESTHETIC
APPROACHES "A Few Brief Moments": Truth and Image in Sports Documentaries
Cynthia Fuchs The Wrestling Road Diaries: The Crossroads of Bourgeois and
Popular Aesthetics Shane Toepfer Murderball: Hypercapitalism and the Ethics
of Narrative Forms in Life-Writing Soumitra Ghosh History and Performance
in Spike's Sports Docs: Jim Brown: All-American and Kobe Doin' Work Zachary
Ingle Senna: Technological and Stylistic Developments in Documentary
Patrick Terry GENDER AND SEXUALITY "The Best Storyteller of Them All":
Constructions of Masculinity and Authenticity in Wrestling with Shadows and
Beyond the Mat Dan Ward Manhood in a Bottle: Strength, Status, and Steroids
Sanjukta Ghosh Out and Proud: The Brave New World of Gay, Lesbian, and
Transsexual Sports Documentaries Sarah Boslaugh SPORTS ON THE MARGINS
Battle Gaming: Social Media and Sports on the Margins Jeffrey A. Sartain
Role Models and Regular People: Cultures of Hegemony in the World of
Murderball Matthew A. McNiece The Death of Kayfabe: Looking Behind the
Curtain of Professional Wrestling Keith Corson Appendix A: Filmography
Index About the Contributors About the Editors