Sporting Blackness : Race, Embodiment, and Critical Muscle Memory on Screen
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0520307798
ISBN-13
9780520307797
Publisher
University of California Press
Imprint
University of California Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jun 16th, 2020
Print length
264 Pages
Weight
364 grams
Dimensions
15.30 x 22.80 x 2.20 cms
Product Classification:
Films, cinemaSocial & cultural historyPopular cultureMedia studiesGender studies, gender groups
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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.
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