King Richard
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4156921 |
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| Authors | Ashley Brown (0000-0001-6743-3773, University of Wisconsin–Madison , Madison, Wisconsin, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 109 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 730-732 |
| Publication date | 2022-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of American History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8723 • E-ISSN: 1945-2314 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/jahist/jaac454 |
| OpenAlex | W4311807921 |
| Language | EN |
King Richard, the drama about coach Richard Williams's struggles to guide and engineer the tennis careers of his daughters, Venus and Serena, before either achieved stardom, resonates with our present cultural moment. Biopics, dramatizations, docuseries, and documentaries about athletes are as popular as ever. The Last Dance (2020), Espn's ten-part docuseries about the 1997–1998 Chicago Bulls, Pbs's Muhammad Ali (2021), a four-part documentary directed by Ken Burns about the boxing legend, and Winning Time (2022), Hbo's limited series about the Los Angeles Lakers dynasty of the 1980s, are recent examples of productions that have attracted massive audiences and expanded notions of sport as entertainment. Reevaluations of the lives and legacies of famous people are fashionable, too. For its part, the Williams-family-produced King Richard is an engaging depiction of the sisters' singular rise in tennis that takes liberties with the historical record to burnish the image of its title character and elucidate the challenges that he faced
Ancient history · Art · Art history · Athletes · Character (mathematics · Dance · Depiction · Drama · Entertainment · Legend · Literature · Muhammad-Ali · Visual arts · History · Medicine · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts · Sports Analytics and Performance · Sports, Gender, and Society
| Highly cited | No |
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