Gender and genre in sports documentaries : critical essays / edited by Zachary Ingle, David M. Sutera.
In Gender and Genre in Sports Documentaries, editors Zachary Ingle and David Sutera have assembled a collection of essays that look at the various aspects of sports documentaries. Some of the essays examine questions of gender and sexuality, specifically how masculinity and homosexuality are represe...
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Table of Contents:
- "A few brief moments": truth and image in sports documentaries / Cynthia Fuchs
- The wrestling road diaries: the crossroads of bourgeois and popular aesthetics / Shane Toepfer
- Murderball: hyper-capitalism and the ethics of narrative forms in life writing / Soumitra Ghosh
- History and performance in Spike's sports docs: Jim Brown: All-American and Kobe doin' work / Zachary Ingle
- Senna: stylistic and technological developments in documentary filmmaking / Patrick Terry
- "The best storyteller of them all": constructions of masculinity and authenticity in Wrestling with shadows and Beyond the mat / Dan Ward
- Manhood in a bottle: truth and image in sports documentaries / Sanjukta Ghosh
- Out and proud: the brave new world of gay, lesbian, and transsexual sports documentaries / Sarah Boslaugh
- Battle gaming: documentaries, social media, and sports on the margins / Jeffrey A. Sartain
- Role models and regular people: cultures of hegemony in the world of Murderball / Matthew A. McNiece
- The death of Kayfabe: looking behind the curtain in Wrestling with shadows / Keith Corson.