Sport, Film, and the Modern World

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

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).

Product details

• Authors: Neil Archer, Archer Neil
• Assisted by: Andrew C. Billings (Editor), Marie Hardin (Editor), Lawrence A. Wenner (Editor), Billings Andrew C. (Editor of the series), Hardin Marie (Editor of the series), Wenner Lawrence A. (Editor of the series)
• Publisher: Peter Lang
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2024
• EAN: 9781636677958
• ISBN: 978-1-63667-795-8
• No. of pages: 236
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 17 mm x 225 mm
• Weight: 430 g
• Illustrations: 25 Abb.
• Series: Communication, Sport, and Society
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Miscellaneous; Film, Genre, Sport, Modern, Theory of art, SPORTS & RECREATION / General, Marie, ART / General, archer, PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General, Neil, Howard, Elizabeth, ANDREW, Sports psychology, history of sport, philosophy of sport, Philosophy: aesthetics, Lawrence, Film: styles & genres, Film Theory & Criticism, Film: styles and genres, Film history, theory or criticism, Film Aesthetics, Billings, Wenner, Hardin, Sports film, psychology of sport