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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: True-hearted vixens
  name:
    name part: Moreno, Mylène
    role:
      role term: producer,
    role:
      role term: director.
  name:
    name part: Independent Television Service
  name:
    name part: Souvenir Pictures
  name:
    name part: Berkeley Media
  type of resource: moving image
  genre: videorecording
  genre: documentary film.
  genre: Documentary films
  genre: Documentary films.
  genre: Documentaires.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: cau
    date issued: 2001
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (58 min.)
  abstract: Imagine 22 women in tights, shoulder pads, and helmets, poised on either side of the scrimmage line, ready to smash each other as hard as they can. Never mind that women aren't supposed to play tackle football. Forget that women's pro leagues rarely succeed. These are committed athletes and this is their one, slim chance to realize their dreams of professional sports careers. This remarkable documentary follows the fortunes of two women during the Women's Professional Football League's inaugural season of six exhibition games. One of the women is a young political consultant-turned linebacker and the other is an elite amateur basketball player and single mother taking a shot at wide receiver. Both traveled from afar, trading security and leaving jobs and loved ones for this long-shot at stardom. They won't be paid unless the league turns a profit. And in order to be successful, the players themselves must become involved in marketing their games and are forced to confront powerful stereotypes about women athletes and sexuality. But the league is relying on conventional images of women -- and a Hooter's model - to build an audience. Can the athletes overcome their growing unease and can the league fulfill its promises?As the women struggle through their first season, balancing self-sacrifice with moments of great satisfaction in an effort to make the league both a financial and personal success, the film explores whether women can be anything other than a novelty act in a sport like football, so identified with masculine strength, power, and athleticism. It also probes deeply into what the experience means to the women involved."True-Hearted Vixens" is fundamentally about cultural change, seen through the lens of sports. It illustrates with insight, compassion, and candor the challenges that women face when they venture into any male-dominated arena. It was produced by Mylene Moreno for the Independent Television Service with funding provided by the Corporation for P…
  target audience: adult
  note: produced, directed and written by Mylène Moreno.
  note: Title from resource description page (viewed July 07, 2016).
  note: In English.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Women's Professional Football League.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Vixens (Football team)
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Women's Professional Football League
  subject:
    topic: Women football players
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Women athletes
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Sports for women
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Sex discrimination in sports
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Sportives
    geographic: États-Unis
  subject:
    topic: Sports féminins
    geographic: États-Unis
  subject:
    topic: Discrimination sexuelle dans les sports
    geographic: États-Unis
  subject:
    topic: Sex discrimination in sports
  subject:
    topic: Sports for women
  subject:
    topic: Women athletes
  subject:
    topic: Women football players
  subject:
    geographic: United States
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Academic Video Online
  related item:
    identifier: (OCoLC)62888329
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: ALSTP
    record creation date: 160707
    record change date: 20241201232331.1
    record identifier: in00005576459
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng