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THE US SPORTS FILM A GENRE OF AMERICAN DREAM TI...

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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