Sports Movies and the Construction of National Image:An Examination Based on Race and Its Historical Facts
Movie,as a literary text,expresses a specific historical mentality by constructing images and scenes.Sports movies,which combine the popular texts of both sports and movies,attract the public with their dual universality,and construct historical iden-tity through watching.The American sports biographical movie,Race,restores the legendary historical event of Jesse Owens,a black American athlete who won four gold medals in Nazi Germany and became a"national hero"in the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games.The movie constructs the anti-Nazism image of the American authorities in both narrative and text.Taking historical documents as the ba-sis,and combining the real history of the 1936 Berlin Summer Olympics,this study compares and analyzes the differences and similari-ties between the historical situations and scenes in the movie and the facts in reality,trying to restore the truth,generalize the logical relationship between the construction of historical discourse and the re-construction of ideology,and reveal the hypocritical anti-Na-zism and racial equality in American history,and the political motivation for the reconstruction of history in the movie.
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