Sport in Films
Series: Sport in the Global Society;
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 14 July 2008
- ISBN 9780415447508
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages286 pages
- Size 246x174 mm
- Weight 690 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This scholarly contribution to the study of sport in films is one of the first of its kind to examine how sport has been used in movies and documentaries as a metaphor for other areas of social life, including insights into the representation of social identities, politics, consumerism and violence
MoreLong description:
Sport offers everything a good story should have: heroes and villains, triumph and disaster, achievement and despair, tension and drama. Consequently, sport makes for a compelling film narrative and films, in turn, are a vivid medium for sport.
Yet despite its regularity as a central theme in motion pictures, constructions and representations of sport and athletes have been marginalised in terms of serious analysis within the longstanding academic study of films and documentaries.
In this collection, it is the critical study of film and its connections to sport that are examined.
The collection is one of the first of its kind to examine the ways in which sport has been used in films as a metaphor for other areas of social life.
Among the themes and issues explored by the contributors are:
- Morality tales in which good triumphs over evil
- The representation and ideological framing of social identities, including class, gender, race and nationality
- The representation of key issues pertinent to sport, including globalization, politics, commodification, consumerism, and violence
- The meanings ‘spoken’ by films – and the various ‘readings’ which audiences make of them
This is a timely collection that draws together a diverse range of accessible, insightful and ground-breaking new essays.
This book was published as a special issue of Sport in Society.
MoreTable of Contents:
Introducing Sport in Films Part 1: Sport and Film: A Match Made in Hollywood… and Studios Around the Globe 1. Consuming Sport Films 2. Sport as a Film Genre 3. Paper title 4. Sport Films in South Asia: A Genre 5. Martial Arts in Film Part 2: Representing Social Identities in Sport Films 6. Masculinities in American Sport Films 1990s-Present 7. Contested Identities of a Migrant Worker in Goal! 8. Social Realism and Class in British Sport Films 9. The Representation of Femininities in Sport Films 10. The Representation of Race in Sport Films Part 3: Representing Social Issues in Sport Films 11. British and American Sport Films: A Review of the Lack of Literature 12. Sport Documentaries 13. ‘I Predict A Riot’: Football Hooliganism and ‘Documentary Evidence’ 14. Spectator Sports and Terrorist Reports: Depicting the Munich Olympics, 1972-2005
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