Film Class

Coach Carter (2005): When Basketball Meets Respectability Politics


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Our first big 'hero coach' film, this time starring Samuel L Jackson as real life high school basketball coach Terence Carter. Carter earns our admiration fo guiding wayward students towards a brighter future through his relentlessly high expectations, but also troubled us with his implication that these young men must always police their language and behaviour to really be accepted. 

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Film ClassBy Sean & Shain