Sport in films /
edited by Emma Poulton and Martin Roderick.
- xxvii, 258 pages ; 26 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introducing sport in films / Sport and film: a match made in Hollywood ... and studios around the globe? -- In praise of an 'invisible genre'? An ambivalent look at the fictional sports feature film / 'It's in the game': sport fans, film and digital gaming / Time and timelessness in sport film / Constructing and Representing Social Identities in Sport Films -- Chariots of Fire: bigotry, manhood and moral certitude in an age of individualism / The changing charismatic status of the performing male body in Asian martial arts films / Winning and losing respect: narratives of identity in sport films / Remasculinizing American white guys in/through new millennium American sport films / Girlfight: boxing women / When kings were (anti-?)colonials: black athletes in film / Constructing and Representing Social Issues in Sport Films -- Goal! and the global sports film / 'Smoke and mirrors': evocations of the Brooklyn Dodgers and Ebbets Field in Blue in the Face / From mice to men: Miracle, mythology and the 'Magic Kingdom' / Critiquing the Olympic documentary: Kon Ichikawa's Tokyo Olympiad / Spectator sports and terrorist reports: filming the Munich Olympics, (re)imagining the Munich Massacre / 'I predict a riot': forecasts, facts and fiction in 'football hooligan' documentaries / Emma Poulton and Martin Roderick -- Glen Jones -- Garry Crawford -- David Rowe -- Ellis Cashmore -- David Brown, George Jennings and Aspasia Leledaki -- Garry Whannel -- Kyle W. Kusz -- Jayne Caudwell -- Grant Farred -- Aaron Baker -- John Hughson -- Michael Silk, Jaime Schultz and Bryan Bracey -- Ian McDonald -- David Scott Diffrient -- Emma Poulton. Pt. 1. 1. 2. 3. Pt. 2. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Pt. 3. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15.
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 long standing 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; and, 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.
041544750X 9780415447508
Sports in motion pictures Sports films--History and criticism