Sporting realities : critical readings of the sports documentary /

Sporting realities : critical readings of the sports documentary / edited by Samantha N. Sheppard and Travis Vogan. - Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, (c)2020. - 1 online resource. - Sports, media, and society .

Includes bibliographies and index.

Documentary as "quality" sports television / Intersectionality in Venus vs. / No girls allowed! : documenting female reporters as threats in Let them wear towels / Documenting difference : gay athletes of color, binary representation, and the sports documentary / To the (black) athlete dying young : documenting and mythologizing Len Bias and Ben Wilson / Protest and public memory : documenting the 1968 Summer Olympic Games / Of friends and foes : remembering Yugoslavia in sport documentaries / "Measuring up" : fathers, sons, and the economy of death in mountain film documentaries / Sports album's replay : newsreel compilations, early television, and the re-circulation of sport history / HBO sports : docu-branding boxing's past and present / Branden Buehler -- Aaron Baker -- Korryn D. Mozisek -- Evan Brody -- Justin Hudson -- Emily Plec and Shaun M. Anderson -- Dario Brentin and David Brown -- Ray Gamache -- Alex Kupfer -- Travis Vogan.

""Sporting Realities" is a collection that explores the sports documentary's cultural meanings, aesthetic practices, industrial and commercial dimensions, and political contours across historical, social, medium-specific, and geographic contexts"--



9781496222473


Television broadcasting of sports.
Documentary television programs--History and criticism.
Sports films--History and criticism.
Documentary films--History and criticism.


Electronic Books.

GV742 / .S667 2020