Sporting Blackness: Race, Embodiment, and Critical Muscle Memory on Screen - Couverture souple

Sheppard, Samantha N.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0520307798 ISBN 13 : 9780520307797

Editeur : University of California Press, 2020

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of California Press
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0520307798
• ISBN 13: 9780520307797
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 269
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• Personne responsable: non disponible