Western Athletics
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Page : 196 pages
File Size : 15,62 MB
Release : 1894
Category : Outdoor recreation
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Page : 196 pages
File Size : 15,62 MB
Release : 1894
Category : Outdoor recreation
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Author : William Joseph Baker
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 26,10 MB
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : 9780252060427
Since the earliest days of the silent era, American filmmakers have been drawn to the visual spectacle of sports and their compelling narratives of conflict, triumph, and individual achievement. In Contesting Identities Aaron Baker examines how these cinematic representations of sports and athletes have evolved over time--from The Pinch Hitter and Buster Keaton's College to White Men Can't Jump, Jerry Maguire, and Girlfight. He focuses on how identities have been constructed and transcended in American society since the early twentieth century. Whether depicting team or individual sports, these films return to that most American of themes, the master narrative of self-reliance. Baker shows that even as sports films tackle socially constructed identities like class, race, ethnicity, sexuality, and gender, they ultimately underscore transcendence of these identities through self-reliance. Looking at films from almost every sporting genre--with a particular focus on movies about boxing, baseball, basketball, and football--Contesting Identities maps the complex cultural landscape depicted in American sports films and the ways in which stories about "subaltern" groups winning acceptance by the mainstream majority can serve to reinforce the values of that majority. In addition to discussing the genre's recurring dramatic tropes, from the populist prizefighter to the hot-headed rebel to the "manly" female athlete, Baker also looks at the social and cinematic impacts of real-life sports figures from Jackie Robinson and Babe Didrikson Zaharias to Muhammad Ali and Michael Jordan.
Author : John Zilcosky
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 13,34 MB
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 1487504187
Sports are the most popular spectator events in the history of the world. This volume demonstrates how sports shape societies and individuals. The essays offer critical new insights and historical case studies from historians, theorists, literature scholars, and athletes.
Author : Bob Barnett
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Page : 429 pages
File Size : 16,99 MB
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9781935978671
West Virginia's championship teams at WVU and Marshall and athletic superstars like Jerry West and Mary Lou Retton are familiar to all, but few know the untold story of sports in the Mountain State. Hillside Fields: A History of Sports in West Virginia chronicles the famous athletic triumphs and heart-breaking losses of local heroes and legendary teams, recording the titanic struggles of a small state competing alongside larger rivals. Hillside Fields provides a broad view of the development of sports in West Virginia, from one of the first golf clubs in America at Oakhurst Links to the Greenbrier Classic; from the first girls basketball championship in 1919 to post Title IX; from racially segregated sports to integrated teams; and from the days when West Virginia Wesleyan and Davis & Elkins beat the big boys in football to the championship teams at WVU, Marshall, West Virginia State and West Liberty. Hillside Fields explains how major national trends and events, as well as West Virginia's economic, political, and demographic conditions, influenced the development of sports in the state. The story of the growth of sports in West Virginia is also a story of the tribulations, hopes, values and triumphs of a proud people.
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Page : 706 pages
File Size : 32,36 MB
Release : 1906
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Page : 532 pages
File Size : 23,63 MB
Release : 1919
Category : China
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Page : 342 pages
File Size : 42,82 MB
Release : 1889
Category : Universities and colleges
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Page : 882 pages
File Size : 35,25 MB
Release : 1926
Category : Athletics
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Author : University of Chicago
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Page : 472 pages
File Size : 19,99 MB
Release : 1905
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Page : 112 pages
File Size : 39,86 MB
Release : 1894
Category : Universities and colleges
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