Hollywood sports movies and the American dream /
"Through the heart of Hollywood cinema runs a surprising current of progressive politics. Sports movies, a genre that has flourished since the mid-seventies, evoke the American dream and represent the nation to itself. Once considered mere credos for Reaganism, on closer view, movies from Rocky...
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
2022.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: America's civic screen
- Rocky (1976) tenderhearted community and racial modernization in bicentennial America
- Slap shot (1977) deindustrialization, goon masculinity, and Yankee-Doodle patriotism
- The natural (1984) farm crisis and minority culture in a New Deal legend
- White men can't jump (1992) "winning and losing is one big organic globule"
- A league of their own (1994) egalitarian women and sideline men
- Ali (2001) actions of the people's champion
- Conclusion.