A Hero for All Seasons: <i>Pride of the Yankees, Brian’s Song,</i> and the Athlete as Christ-Figure

Durbin, Daniel T.

doi:10.1080/09523367.2020.1828360

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“…When discussing US sports film, it is difficult not to consider the contemporary literature in the field. Current research in this area focuses mainly on race-related themes (Descamps, Vivier, 2020;Pearson et al, 2019), including on Native American population (Bauer, Delsahut, 2020;Bauer et al, 2021;Durbin, 2020;Green, 2017), however, it concerns older productions. Such continuous search for personal, community and nation-level identity is characteristic in the case of research of sports-related American film culture.…”

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Moral and Existential Dilemmas in American Sports Feature Films of 2019–2020

Drzewiecki¹

2021

Media Education (Mediaobrazovanie)

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Contemporary sports films discuss various moral and existential themes. They present how athletes struggle with their own weaknesses and also motivate the audience to excel not only in the physical dimension but also spiritually. This is particularly clear in contemporary US sports cinematography. Eight American sports feature films from 2019-2020 were selected for this analysis. Most of them are dramas, three are based on biographical plots -Safety (directed by Reginald Hudlin), Brian Banks (by Tom Shadyac) and The Brawler (by Ken Kushner), and one explicitly refers to religious faith -Overcomer by Alex Kendrick. This study uses the method of film analysis where films are regarded according to Grzegorz Łęcicki's concept of media message, with particular focus on ethical issues. The analysis posed three questions: 1) how do the events depicted in film narration relate to historical facts? 2) how are the existential struggles of the athletes captured in the symbolic message, 3) what moral dilemmas do the athletes experience? Above all, the researchers searched for Christian references relevant to American film culture, both directly and naturalized in semiotic and narrative references. As a result, the study succeeded in establishing the main categories of contemporary sports moral and existential dilemmas from a religious perspective. The thesis on Christian inspirations of contemporary American sports cinema has been confirmed.

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Moral and Existential Dilemmas in American Sports Feature Films of 2019–2020

Drzewiecki¹

2021

Media Education (Mediaobrazovanie)

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“…A primary task of social science is to explore social illusion, "to assess the humanly defeating fictions of the socially created hero-systems" (Sciemecca, 1979:63). By doing so, social science can "determine the cost in adaptive capacity and freedom to perceive the world of a cultural hero-system of sport" (Segrave, 1993:183; see also Durbin, 2020). In the spirit of sport, you were a cultural hero, a "franchise savior" as the phrase is sometimes used (Kassing et al, 2004).…”

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Kobe Bryant: Consent and the Carceral Shadow of a Life Incomplete

Price‐Spratlen

2021

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Kobe Bryant is now in the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame. He entered in what is perhaps the most decorated Hall of Fame class in the history of the institution. Among the events that inform how athletes and other public figures are perceived are off-court activities and events. On the last day of June 2003, Kobe Bryant had a sexual encounter with a young woman in his suite in a Colorado resort. What resulted from that encounter was part sports spectacle, part legal proceedings, and all public privacy. Legal decisions and actions of an NBA African American icon-underconstruction became a part of news coverage for nearly 2 years. This coverage was the onset of Kobe's "carceral shadow." W.E.B. Du Bois (1899:254, 249) suggested that, "Crime comes either in spite of intelligence or as a result of misdirected intelligence under severe economic and moral strain… We must add to this the influences of social position and connections in procuring whites pardons or lighter sentences." That young Colorado woman accused Kobe of sexual assault. Graphic accounts and other evidence presented in the court of public opinion led to a large payment to the alleged victim which ended the civil suit and the legal process. Despite the absence of a trial and conviction, one can understand Kobe through the lens of a carceral citizenship. Similar circumstances-on mere allegation alone-often led to the lynching death of many Black men throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Kobe's carceral shadow followed him from that day forward through an arc of post-non-trial redemption. In this work, I consider these themes in relation to Kobe's iconic "life incomplete."

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The problem of representation of the concept “hero image” in the linguistic and educational process

Gozalova¹

2021

JETT

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This study's object is linguistic and educatioal means that express the hero image as a phenomenon of the formation of the process of cultural development of the people. This paper aims to study the representation of the image of heroin in the linguistic, educational and socio-spiritual space of the youth of the modern world society. The relevance of the research lies in the fact that the linguistic features and ways of teaching the hero image and the changes that the image of hero undergoes over time in the languages of different peoples are explored: in recent years, the world has seen the process of transforming heroic images, their revaluation, and devaluation. In the modern social and spiritual space, the image of a real hero changes. The study material was the data from dictionaries, fictious books, mass media, as well as questionnaires. Europe and, first of all, France for the Russians have historically been a cultural hero, being guided by which Russia has often transformed itself in the course of its history, but the image of this cultural hero has greatly changed in the 21st century in the era of the end of neoliberal globalization.

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A Hero for All Seasons: Pride of the Yankees, Brian’s Song, and the Athlete as Christ-Figure

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Moral and Existential Dilemmas in American Sports Feature Films of 2019–2020

Moral and Existential Dilemmas in American Sports Feature Films of 2019–2020

Kobe Bryant: Consent and the Carceral Shadow of a Life Incomplete

The problem of representation of the concept “hero image” in the linguistic and educational process

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