{"product_id":"sporting-realities-samantha-n-sheppard-9781496221797","title":"Sporting Realities: Critical Readings of the Sports Documentary","description":"Despite the increasing number of popular and celebrated sports documentaries in contemporary culture, such as ESPN's \u003ci\u003e30 for 30\u003c\/i\u003e series, there has been little scholarly engagement with this genre. Sports documentaries, like all films, do not merely showcase objective reality but rather construct specific versions of sporting culture that serve distinct economic, industrial, institutional, historical, and sociopolitical ends ripe for criticism, contextualization, and exploration. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eSporting Realities\u003c\/i\u003e brings together a diverse group of scholars to probe the sports documentary's cultural meanings, aesthetic practices, industrial and commercial dimensions, and political contours across historical, social, medium-specific, and geographic contexts. It considers and critiques the sports documentary's visible and powerful position in contemporary culture and forges novel connections between the study of nonfiction media and sport. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Samantha N. Sheppard\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1496221796\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781496221797\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Nebraska Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 246\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.81lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2021","brand":"Samantha N. Sheppard","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43983374582015,"sku":"9781496221797","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_93a86e3d-31cf-47fb-a6f0-b1762d1f9277.jpg?v=1683266263","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/sporting-realities-samantha-n-sheppard-9781496221797","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}