Hollywood Sports Movies and the American Dream

by Grant Wiedenfeld

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Through the heart of Hollywood cinema runs an unexpected current of progressive politics. Sports movies, a genre that has flourished since the mid-seventies, evoke the American dream and therefore represent the nation to itself in idealized form. Once considered mere credos for Reaganism's fantasies of an atomized society, movies from Rocky (1976) to Ali (2001) dream of democratic participation and recognition more than individual success, for in
every case, off-field relationships take precedence over on-field competition.

Arranged chronologically, Hollywood Sports Films and the American Dream is a critical study of six major sports films that re-tells the...Read more
  • ISBN10 0197624928
  • ISBN13 9780197624920
  • Publish Date 7 June 2022
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Oxford University Press Inc
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 304
  • Language English