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The Hollywood Sports Film: Visualizing Hidden and Familiar Aspects of American Culture
Der Hollywoodsportfilm: eine Visualisierung verborgener und vertrauter Aspekte der amerikanischen Kultur
Abstract This essay highlights a number of Hollywood sport films from the 1970s focusing on national and personal identity issues. Against the backdrop of contemporary history, the meaning of sports and film, and its pop cultural intertwinement becomes transparent revealing a basic pattern. Aspects come into... mehr
This essay highlights a number of Hollywood sport films from the 1970s focusing on national and personal identity issues. Against the backdrop of contemporary history, the meaning of sports and film, and its pop cultural intertwinement becomes transparent revealing a basic pattern. Aspects come into the picture which from a European perspective seem both familiar and, in a way, hidden. Besides being great entertainment, sport films like North Dallas Forty (1979), Semi-Tough (1977) or The Bad News Bears (1976) have the quality to serve as a rich and meaningful archive of visual sources for research in the humanities.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Zeitgeist; Sport; Zeitgeschichte; USA; Identität; Film; Popkultur
Klassifikation
allgemeine Geschichte
andere Medien
Freie Schlagwörter
Hollywood sport films; American history; US sports; identity issues; North Dallas Forty; Semi-Tough; The Bad News Bears
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2018
Seitenangabe
S. 165-180
Zeitschriftentitel
Historical Social Research, 43 (2018) 2
Heftthema
Visualities - Sports, Bodies, and Visual Sources
DOI
https://doi.org/10.12759/hsr.43.2018.2.165-180
ISSN
0172-6404
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)