Sport, Film, and the Modern World
Summary
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.
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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
Names: Archer, Neil, author.
Title: Sport, film, and the modern world: aesthetics, ethics, environments
/ Neil Archer.
Description: NewYork: Peter Lang, 2024. | Series: Communication, sport,
and society; vol. 11 | Includes bibliographical references.
Identifiers: LCCN 2024008491 (print) | LCCN 2024008492 (ebook) | ISBN
9781636677958 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781636677941 (paperback) | ISBN
9781636677965 (ebook) | ISBN 9781636678344 (epub)
Subjects: LCSH: Sports in motion pictures. | Sports films– History and
criticism.
Classification: LCC PN1995.9.S67 A74 2024 (print) | LCC PN1995.9.S67
(ebook) | DDC 791.43/ 6579– dc23/eng/20240401
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2024008491
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2024008492
DOI 10.3726/ b21640
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The German National Library lists this publication in the German
National Bibliography; detailed bibliographic data is available
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ISSN 2576-7632 (print)
ISBN 9781636677941 (paperback)
ISBN 9781636677958 (hardback)
ISBN 9781636677965 (ebook)
ISBN 9781636678344 (epub)
DOI 10.3726/ b21640
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About the author
Neil Archer is Senior Lecturer in Film at Keele University (UK). He is the author of eight previous books, including Twenty-First-Century Hollywood: Rebooting the System (2019) and The Social Network: Youth Film 2.0 (2022).
About the book
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.
This eBook can be cited
This edition of the eBook can be cited. To enable this we have marked the start and end of a page. In cases where a word straddles a page break, the marker is placed inside the word at exactly the same position as in the physical book. This means that occasionally a word might be bifurcated by this marker.
Contents
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
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Thanks to everyone at Peter Lang, and to the editors of the Communication, Sport, and Society series, for their enthusiastic support of this book, and helpful suggestions along the way.
Special thanks as usual to my family, and especially to Steve and Mags Archer for encouraging an early interest in sport, both as a participant and a viewer. In a way, this book has been gestating for over four decades, so I hope it’s worth the wait.
Details
- Pages
- XIV, 236
- Publication Year
- 2024
- ISBN (PDF)
- 9781636677965
- ISBN (ePUB)
- 9781636678344
- ISBN (Hardcover)
- 9781636677958
- ISBN (Softcover)
- 9781636677941
- 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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