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The US Sports Film: A Genre of American Dream Time
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Danny Gronmaier
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English
Published/Copyright:
2023
About this book
Sports and film are media that create time. They are temporal not only in the sense that they are defined and regulated by certain temporalities as a result of processes of social negotiation, but also in the sense of modulating and intervening in these processes in the first place. They are determined by multiple temporalities referring to and aligning along perceptual corporeality; but at the same time, they also produce time through and along temporalities of bodily expression and perception. Thus, as much as we perceive and understand sports and film by means of our culturally coded conceptions of time, this comprehension is itself already the product of these media’s fabrication and modulation of certain audiovisual imaginations of time. This book examines these imaginations with regard to US team sports feature films, understanding the former as the latter’s constitutive conflict which makes these films graspable as a genre in the first place. By addressing temporality as an ever-new crystallization of a heroic past and an unattainable future in a saturated yet volatile present, this conflict connects substantially to the American Dream as an idea of community-building historicity. Departing from a non-taxonomic approach in genre theory and such philosophical recognition of the American Dream as less an ideological narrative but more a social and socially effective imaginary embedded in an audiovisual discourse of time, this book demonstrates the interrelation of sports, cinema and “American” subjectivization along close readings of the poetics of affect of five exemplary sports films (FIELD OF DREAMS, WE ARE MARSHALL, KNUTE ROCKNE ALL AMERICAN, JIM THORPE – ALL-AMERICAN, MIRACLE).
Author / Editor information
Danny Gronmaier, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
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Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
December 5, 2022
eBook ISBN:
9783110760354
Hardcover published on:
December 5, 2022
Hardcover ISBN:
9783110757019
Paperback published on:
June 17, 2024
Paperback ISBN:
9783111529639
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Front matter:
13
Main content:
294
Illustrations:
21
Coloured Illustrations:
36
eBook ISBN:
9783110760354
Hardcover ISBN:
9783110757019
Paperback ISBN:
9783111529639
Keywords for this book
Popular Sports Feature Film; American Dream; Philosophy of Time; Hollywood Genre Film
Audience(s) for this book
Scholars of Film Studies, Cinema Studies, Media Studies, Cultural Studies, Sports Studies, American Studies, Social Science
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