Sporting Blackness: Race, Embodiment, and Critical Muscle Memory on Screen

By: Samantha N. Sheppard

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Synopsis: 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.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9780520973855
Related ISBNs:: 9780520307797, 9780520307773
Publisher:: University of California Press
Date of Addition:: 06/16/20
Copyrighted By:: Samantha N. Sheppard
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: History, Entertainment, Nonfiction, Sports, Art and Architecture, Social Studies, Sociology
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.