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The US Sports Film: A Genre of American Dream Time / Danny Gronmaier.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Cinepoetics – English edition ; 11Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2022]Copyright date: ©2023Description: 1 online resource (XIII, 294 p.)Content type:
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  • 9783110757019
  • 9783110760392
  • 9783110760354
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Acknowledgement -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Haunting Question of Genre -- 3 Becoming What We Were and Will Be Again: The American Dream -- 4 Still to Come and Having Already Happened: The Moment as Crystal -- 5 Dissolutions of/in Time and Images of Communization: Flow in MIRACLE -- 6 Commemorating Futurity, Projecting Pastness: Never-Ending Endings -- 7 Concluding Remarks: The Hill We Climb -- Bibliography -- Filmography -- Table of Figures -- Name Index -- Film Index
Dissertation note: Diss. FU Berlin 2021. Summary: Sports and film are media that create time. They are temporal not only in the sense that they are defined and regulated by certain temporalities as a result of processes of social negotiation, but also in the sense of modulating and intervening in these processes in the first place. They are determined by multiple temporalities referring to and aligning along perceptual corporeality; but at the same time, they also produce time through and along temporalities of bodily expression and perception. Thus, as much as we perceive and understand sports and film by means of our culturally coded conceptions of time, this comprehension is itself already the product of these media’s fabrication and modulation of certain audiovisual imaginations of time. This book examines these imaginations with regard to US team sports feature films, understanding the former as the latter’s constitutive conflict which makes these films graspable as a genre in the first place. By addressing temporality as an ever-new crystallization of a heroic past and an unattainable future in a saturated yet volatile present, this conflict connects substantially to the American Dream as an idea of community-building historicity. Departing from a non-taxonomic approach in genre theory and such philosophical recognition of the American Dream as less an ideological narrative but more a social and socially effective imaginary embedded in an audiovisual discourse of time, this book demonstrates the interrelation of sports, cinema and “American” subjectivization along close readings of the poetics of affect of five exemplary sports films (FIELD OF DREAMS, WE ARE MARSHALL, KNUTE ROCKNE ALL AMERICAN, JIM THORPE – ALL-AMERICAN, MIRACLE).
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Diss. FU Berlin 2021.

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgement -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Haunting Question of Genre -- 3 Becoming What We Were and Will Be Again: The American Dream -- 4 Still to Come and Having Already Happened: The Moment as Crystal -- 5 Dissolutions of/in Time and Images of Communization: Flow in MIRACLE -- 6 Commemorating Futurity, Projecting Pastness: Never-Ending Endings -- 7 Concluding Remarks: The Hill We Climb -- Bibliography -- Filmography -- Table of Figures -- Name Index -- Film Index

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Sports and film are media that create time. They are temporal not only in the sense that they are defined and regulated by certain temporalities as a result of processes of social negotiation, but also in the sense of modulating and intervening in these processes in the first place. They are determined by multiple temporalities referring to and aligning along perceptual corporeality; but at the same time, they also produce time through and along temporalities of bodily expression and perception. Thus, as much as we perceive and understand sports and film by means of our culturally coded conceptions of time, this comprehension is itself already the product of these media’s fabrication and modulation of certain audiovisual imaginations of time. This book examines these imaginations with regard to US team sports feature films, understanding the former as the latter’s constitutive conflict which makes these films graspable as a genre in the first place. By addressing temporality as an ever-new crystallization of a heroic past and an unattainable future in a saturated yet volatile present, this conflict connects substantially to the American Dream as an idea of community-building historicity. Departing from a non-taxonomic approach in genre theory and such philosophical recognition of the American Dream as less an ideological narrative but more a social and socially effective imaginary embedded in an audiovisual discourse of time, this book demonstrates the interrelation of sports, cinema and “American” subjectivization along close readings of the poetics of affect of five exemplary sports films (FIELD OF DREAMS, WE ARE MARSHALL, KNUTE ROCKNE ALL AMERICAN, JIM THORPE – ALL-AMERICAN, MIRACLE).

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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