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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... view more
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.... view less
Keywords
sports; Zeitgeist; identity; film; pop culture; contemporary history; United States of America
Classification
General History
Other Media
Free Keywords
Hollywood sport films; American history; US sports; identity issues; North Dallas Forty; Semi-Tough; The Bad News Bears
Document language
English
Publication Year
2018
Page/Pages
p. 165-180
Journal
Historical Social Research, 43 (2018) 2
Issue topic
Visualities - Sports, Bodies, and Visual Sources
DOI
https://doi.org/10.12759/hsr.43.2018.2.165-180
ISSN
0172-6404
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed