Nonfiction films about sports have been around for decades, but few
scholarly articles have been published on sports documentaries. In
Identity and Myth in Sports Documentaries, editors Zachary Ingle
and David Sutera have assembled a collection of essays that look at
the ways in which identity-national, religious, ethnic, racial,
etc.-and myth are constructed, perpetuated, or questioned in
documentaries produced in the United States, France, Australia,
Germany, and Japan. This volume is divided into three sections:
American Identity and Myth contains essays on consumerism, religion
in sports, and post-9/11 America. The second section, Race and
Ethnicity, examines the ways in which African-American,
Mexican-American, and Jewish identity are portrayed in the
documentaries under discussion. Global Perspectives includes essays
about films and TV series produced outside of the United States or
that provide perspectives on the international sport scene.
Spanning several decades, the landmark sports documentaries
discussed in this volume include Hoop Dreams, The Endless Summer,
The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg, Olympia, and Tokyo
Olympiad.Sports covered in these films include baseball, football,
basketball, boxing, soccer, surfing, and the Olympics. Essays in
this volume pose such questions as: How are notions of the American
dream involved in athletes' aspirations? How do media texts from
Australia or France construct Australian and French identity,
respectively? How did filmmakers such as Leni Riefenstahl, Kon
Ichikawa, and Bud Greenspan infuse their Olympic documentaries with
their own national ideology, despite the films also being intended
for international audience consumption? By tackling those subjects,
the essays in this collection make Identity and Myth in Sports
Documentaries an intriguing read for scholars, students, and the
general public.
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