Sport, Film, and the Modern World
©2024
Textbook
XIV,
236 Pages
Series:
Communication, Sport, and Society, Volume 11
Summary
This book rethinks the discussion of sport as a cinematic subject. Arguing for the vitality of the sports film as distinctively ‘modern’ genre, the book looks at its innovative potential to capture twentieth- and twenty-first-century sport in all its complexity.
Written in an accessible style and illustrated throughout, the book integrates work and ideas from film studies with thinking from sports psychology, philosophy, data theory and ecocriticism. In its detailed analyses of a wide-ranging group of films, the book shows how film, from fictional works to biopics to experimental documentaries, can illuminate individual sporting experience, as well as sport’s wider place in modern life.
Written in an accessible style and illustrated throughout, the book integrates work and ideas from film studies with thinking from sports psychology, philosophy, data theory and ecocriticism. In its detailed analyses of a wide-ranging group of films, the book shows how film, from fictional works to biopics to experimental documentaries, can illuminate individual sporting experience, as well as sport’s wider place in modern life.
Excerpt
Table Of Contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- About the author
- About the book
- This eBook can be cited
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Modernity, Sport, and Film – Starting Line
- Chapter 1 From Cars to Chariots and Back Again, via Le Mans: The Modernist Impact of Sport and Film
- Chapter 2 Cities and Bodies in Motion: Modernist Trajectories in the Parkour Film
- Chapter 3 Winning Ugly: Moneyballing the Sports Film
- Chapter 4 Winning Uglier: Ethical Dilemmas in the Sports Biopic
- Chapter 5 Subjectivity in the Twenty-First-Century Sports Documentary
- Chapter 6 Going Solo: Ecocritical Approaches to the ‘Extreme’ Sports Film
- Afterword: Film vs Sport – Endgame
- Index
- Series Index
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Details
- Pages
- XIV, 236
- Publication Year
- 2024
- ISBN (PDF)
- 9781636677965
- ISBN (ePUB)
- 9781636678344
- ISBN (Softcover)
- 9781636677941
- ISBN (Hardcover)
- 9781636677958
- DOI
- 10.3726/b21640
- Language
- English
- Publication date
- 2024 (June)
- Keywords
- Sports film philosophy of sport psychology of sport film aesthetics genre
- Published
- New York, Berlin, Bruxelles, Chennai, Lausanne, Oxford, 2024. XIV, 236 pp., 25 b/w ill.
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