| Sporting Blackness: Race, Embodiment, and Critical Muscle Memory on Screen Contributor(s): Sheppard, Samantha N. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0520307798 ISBN-13: 9780520307797 Publisher: University of California Press OUR PRICE: $29.65 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2020 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Film - General - Social Science | Media Studies - Social Science | Gender Studies |
| Dewey: 791.436 |
| LCCN: 2019059432 |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.9" W x 9" (0.80 lbs) 264 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Topical - Black History |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |