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Sport, Film, and the Modern World

English · Paperback / Softback

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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.

List of contents

Modernity, Sport, and Film: Starting line
From Cars to Chariots and Back Again, via Le Mans: The Modernist Impact of Sport and Film
Cities and Bodies in Motion: Modernist Trajectories in the Parkour Film
Winning Ugly: Moneyballing the Sports Film
Winning Uglier: Ethical Dilemmas in the Sports Biopic
Subjectivity in the Twenty-First-Century Sports Documentary
Going Solo: Ecocritical Approaches to the 'Extreme' Sports Film
Film vs Sport: Endgame

Product details

Authors Neil Archer
Assisted by Andrew C. Billings (Editor), Marie Hardin (Editor), Lawrence A. Wenner (Editor)
Publisher Peter Lang
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 31.05.2024
 
EAN 9781636677941
ISBN 978-1-63667-794-1
No. of pages 236
Dimensions 150 mm x 13 mm x 225 mm
Weight 357 g
Illustrations 25 Abb.
Series Communication, Sport, and Society
Subject Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Miscellaneous

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