KINE 4340 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Hoop Dreams
21 May 2017
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The predominant narrative about masculinity was one about criminality and threat. 2 representation of black males: 1 was basketball and 1 was young thugs(criminals) and they always kept reappearing on the same page. The raptors, even though they had million, they had to still work within that representation train. All representations are intertextual, they(cid:859)re rarely o(cid:374) their ow(cid:374). Intertexuality was th e preivous understanding of the black race which was a result of capitalism. The space between basketball and criminals is very narrow. It(cid:859)s (cid:374)ot just the spa(cid:272)e of reperse(cid:374)atio(cid:374) (cid:271)ut slo (cid:858)life (cid:272)ha(cid:374)(cid:272)es(cid:859) The film hoop dreams, is trying to talk about how basketball iss trying to counteract crime. If you just fo(cid:272)us o(cid:374) (cid:271)asket(cid:271)all, you(cid:859)re (cid:373)issi(cid:374)g a lot of other stuff. The film is kind of trying to. In the movie hoop dreams, at the end there is a house dedicated to 5 black theltes who are (cid:894)dis(cid:272)ussio(cid:374) paper 2(cid:895). Marx is looking for the unifying principle.
