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Sporting Blackness: Race, Embodiment, and Critical Muscle Memory on Screen
Contributor(s): Sheppard, Samantha N. (Author)

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 ISBN: 0520307798     ISBN-13: 9780520307797
Publisher: University of California Press
OUR PRICE: $31.45  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: June 2020
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BISAC Categories:
- Performing Arts | Film - General
- Social Science | Media Studies
- Social Science | Gender Studies
Dewey: 791.436
LCCN: 2019059432
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.9" W x 9" L (0.80 lbs) 264 pages
Themes:
- Ethnic Orientation - African American
- Topical - Black History
 
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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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