Sports Heroines on Film: A Critical Study of Cinematic Women Athletes, Coaches and Owners - Softcover

Lieberman, Viridiana

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0786476613 ISBN 13: 9780786476619

Publisher: McFarland & Company, 2014

Synopsis

It's hard to find females in leading roles as athletes, coaches and owners in sports film story lines. With an abundance of male-focused stories, Hollywood continues to reinforce the association of athleticism with masculinity. Portrayals of women in prominent roles indicate social attitudes and values and--when looked at over time--also show what influence the women's movement has had on cinematic representation and social understandings. This discussion of sports film heroines begins with National Velvet (1944) and ends with Secretariat (2010). It addresses the question of whether these story lines do or do not empower women as characters and role models, while offering alternative cinematic choices that reflect the true and ever-growing history of women in sports.

About this title

About the Author:

Filmmaker, film lover and activist Viridiana Lieberman lives in Brooklyn, New York. She holds a master's degree in women's studies from Florida Atlantic University.

Review:

"Lieberman has provided good textual analysis for the films she discussed while noting significant patterns of the way in which films deny female athletes autonomous self-definition"--Nordic Sport Science Forum.

About this edition

• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0786476613
• ISBN 13: 9780786476619
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 200