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Sports heroines on film : a critical study of cinematic women athletes, coaches and owners / Viridiana Lieberman.

By: Material type: TextPublisher: Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (201 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781476616933 (e-book)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Sports heroines on film : a critical study of cinematic women athletes, coaches and owners.DDC classification:
  • 791.43/6579 23
LOC classification:
  • PN1995.9.S67 L53 2015eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Dismount: the façade of female empowerment -- Hitting foul: missed opportunities in A league of their own and Whip it -- M.V.P.: the most vulnerable player in children's sports films -- Love-love: struggling to make a point -- Illegal substitution: replacing one (wo)man with another -- Measured and recorded: cinematic female coaches -- Principal interest: cinematic female owners -- Conclusion.
Summary: "Sports films are a popular genre. In some ways they are akin to highlight reels, depicting the emotional climax of wins and losses, aggression and dominance. They also epitomize the kind of propaganda of male dominant culture, packaged for entertainment purposes. This discussion of sports film heroines begins with National Velvet (1944) and ends with Secretariat (2010)"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Dismount: the façade of female empowerment -- Hitting foul: missed opportunities in A league of their own and Whip it -- M.V.P.: the most vulnerable player in children's sports films -- Love-love: struggling to make a point -- Illegal substitution: replacing one (wo)man with another -- Measured and recorded: cinematic female coaches -- Principal interest: cinematic female owners -- Conclusion.

"Sports films are a popular genre. In some ways they are akin to highlight reels, depicting the emotional climax of wins and losses, aggression and dominance. They also epitomize the kind of propaganda of male dominant culture, packaged for entertainment purposes. This discussion of sports film heroines begins with National Velvet (1944) and ends with Secretariat (2010)"-- Provided by publisher.

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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2014. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

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