Sport And Film

Author : Seán Crosson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781135167462

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Sport and Film by Seán Crosson Pdf

The sports film has become one of commercial cinema's most recognizable genres. From classic boxing films such as Raging Bull (1980) to soccer-themed box-office successes like Bend it Like Beckham (2002), the sports film stands at the interface of two of our most important cultural forms. This book examines the social, historical and ideological significance of representations of sport in film internationally, an essential guide for all students and enthusiasts of sport, film, media and culture. Sport and Film traces the history of the sports film, from the beginnings of cinema in the 1890s, its consolidation as a distinct fiction genre in the mid 1920s in Hollywood films such as Harold Lloyd’s The Freshman (1925), to its contemporary manifestation in Oscar-winning films such as Million Dollar Baby (2004) and The Fighter (2010). Drawing on an extensive range of films as source material, the book explores key issues in the study of sport, film and wider society, including race, social class, gender and the legacy of 9/11. It also offers an invaluable guide to 'reading' a film, to help students fully engage with their source material. Comprehensive, authoritative and accessible, this book is an important addition to the literature in both film and media studies, sport studies and cultural studies more generally.

Author : Seán Crosson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000172508

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Sport, Film and National Culture by Seán Crosson Pdf

Sport and film have historically been key components of national cultures and societies. This is the first collection dedicated to examining the intersection of these popular cultural forces within specific national contexts. Covering films of all types, from Hollywood blockbusters to regional documentaries and newsreels, the book considers how filmic depictions of sport have configured and informed distinctive national cultures, societies and identities. Featuring case studies from 11 national contexts across 6 continents – including North and South America, Europe, Africa, Asia and Oceania – it reveals the common and contrasting approaches that have emerged within sport cinema in differing national contexts. This is fascinating and important reading for all students and researchers working in film, media, cultural studies or sport, and for broader enthusiasts of both sport and film.

Author : Katharina Bonzel,Nicholas Chare
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-11
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781351795920

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Representations of Sports Coaches in Film by Katharina Bonzel,Nicholas Chare Pdf

This ground-breaking interdisciplinary collection brings together leading international scholars working across the humanities and social sciences to examine ways in which representations of sports coaching in narrative and documentary cinema can shape and inform sporting instruction. The central premise of the volume is that films featuring sports coaches potentially reflect, reinforce or contest how their audiences comprehend the world of coaching. Despite the growing interest in theories of coaching and in the study of the sports film as a genre, specific analyses of filmic depictions of sports coaches are still rare despite coaches often having a central role as figures shaping the values, social situation and cultural expectations of the athletes they train. By way of a series of enlightening and original studies, this volume redresses the relative neglect afforded to sports coaching in film and simultaneously highlights the immense value that research in this emerging field has for sporting performance and social justice. This book was originally published as a special issue of the journal Sports Coaching Review.

Author : Michael Lewis
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2004-03-17
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780393066234

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Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis Pdf

"This delightfully written, lesson-laden book deserves a place of its own in the Baseball Hall of Fame." —Forbes Moneyball is a quest for the secret of success in baseball. In a narrative full of fabulous characters and brilliant excursions into the unexpected, Michael Lewis follows the low-budget Oakland A's, visionary general manager Billy Beane, and the strange brotherhood of amateur baseball theorists. They are all in search of new baseball knowledge—insights that will give the little guy who is willing to discard old wisdom the edge over big money.

Author : Bruce Babington
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780231169653

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The Sports Film by Bruce Babington Pdf

After covering the genre's early history and theorizing its general characteristics, this volume then focuses on specific instances of sports films, such as the biopic, the sports history film, the documentary, the fan film, the boxing film, and explores issues such as gender, race, spectacle and silent comedy. Four major films are then closely analysed – Chariots of Fire, Field of Dreams, the Indian cricket epic Lagaan, and Oliver Stone's Any Given Sunday. While recording American film's importance to the genre, the book resists the conventional over-concentration on American cinema and sports by its attention to other cinemas, for example the British, Indian, Australian, South Korean, Thai, German, New Zealand, Spanish, and so on, with the many different sports they depict.

Author : Samantha N. Sheppard,Travis Vogan
Publisher : University of Nebraska Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781496217578

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Sporting Realities by Samantha N. Sheppard,Travis Vogan Pdf

Despite the increasing number of popular and celebrated sports documentaries in contemporary culture, such as ESPN’s 30 for 30 series, there has been little scholarly engagement with this genre. Sports documentaries, like all films, do not merely showcase objective reality but rather construct specific versions of sporting culture that serve distinct economic, industrial, institutional, historical, and sociopolitical ends ripe for criticism, contextualization, and exploration. Sporting Realities brings together a diverse group of scholars to probe the sports documentary’s cultural meanings, aesthetic practices, industrial and commercial dimensions, and political contours across historical, social, medium-specific, and geographic contexts. It considers and critiques the sports documentary’s visible and powerful position in contemporary culture and forges novel connections between the study of nonfiction media and sport.

Author : Christopher G. Rea
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780231547673

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Chinese Film Classics, 1922–1949 by Christopher G. Rea Pdf

Winner, 2023 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Chinese Film Classics, 1922–1949 is an essential guide to the first golden age of Chinese cinema. Offering detailed introductions to fourteen films, this study highlights the creative achievements of Chinese filmmakers in the decades leading up to 1949, when the Communists won the civil war and began nationalizing cultural industries. Christopher Rea reveals the uniqueness and complexity of Republican China’s cinematic masterworks, from the comedies and melodramas of the silent era to the talkies and musicals of the 1930s and 1940s. Each chapter appraises the artistry of a single film, highlighting its outstanding formal elements, from cinematography to editing to sound design. Examples include the slapstick gags of Laborer’s Love (1922), Ruan Lingyu’s star turn in Goddess (1934), Zhou Xuan’s mesmerizing performance in Street Angels (1937), Eileen Chang’s urbane comedy of manners Long Live the Missus! (1947), the wartime epic Spring River Flows East (1947), and Fei Mu’s acclaimed work of cinematic lyricism, Spring in a Small Town (1948). Rea shares new insights and archival discoveries about famous films, while explaining their significance in relation to politics, society, and global cinema. Lavishly illustrated and featuring extensive guides to further viewings and readings, Chinese Film Classics, 1922–1949 offers an accessible tour of China’s early contributions to the cinematic arts.

Author : Aaron Baker
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0252028163

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Contesting Identities by Aaron Baker Pdf

Publisher's description: Since the earliest days of the silent era, American filmmakers have been drawn to the visual spectacles of sports and their compelling narratives of conflict, triumph, and individual achievement. In Contesting Identities Aaron Baker examines how these cinematic representations of sports and athletes have evolved over time--from The Pinch Hitter and Buster Keaton's College to White Men Can't Jump, Jerry Maguire, and Girlfight. He focuses on how identities have been constructed and transcended in American society since the early twentieth century. Whether depicting team or individual sports, these films return to that most American of themes, the master narrative of self-reliance. Baker shows that even as sports films tackle socially constructed identities such as class, race, ethnicity, sexuality, and gender, they ultimately underscore transcendence of these identities through self-reliance. In addition to discussing the genre's recurring dramatic tropes, from the populist prizefighter to the hot-headed rebel to the "manly" female athlete, Baker also looks at the social and cinematic impacts of real-life sports figures from Jackie Robinson and Babe Didrikson Zaharias to Muhammad Ali and Michael Jordan.

Author : Ronald Bergan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : STANFORD:36105007343135

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Sports in the Movies by Ronald Bergan Pdf

Author : K Edgington,Thomas Erskine,James M. Welsh
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2010-12-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780810876538

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Encyclopedia of Sports Films by K Edgington,Thomas Erskine,James M. Welsh Pdf

In this reference volume, more than 200 fictional feature-length movies with a primary focus on an athletic endeavor are discussed, including comedies, dramas, and biopics. Brief summaries and credit information are provided for an additional 200 films, and appendixes include made-for-teleivion movies and documentaries.

Author : Brett Hutchins,David Rowe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780415887182

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Sport Beyond Television by Brett Hutchins,David Rowe Pdf

Computers, the Internet, Web, mobile, and other digital media are increasingly important technologies in the production and consumption of sports media. Sport Beyond Television analyzes the changes that have given rise to this situation, combining theoretical insights with original evidence collected through extensive research and interviews with people working in the media and sport industries. It locates sports media as a pivotal component in online content economies and cultures, and counteracts the scant scholarly attention to sports media when compared to music, film and publishing in convergent media cultures.

Author : Roland Barthes
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780300116045

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What is Sport? by Roland Barthes Pdf

In this elegant paperback gift edition, one of the major figures of 20th-century French literature and thought offers a poetic meditation on professional sport.

Author : Kenneth L. Shropshire,Collin D. Williams
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781613631386

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The Miseducation of the Student Athlete by Kenneth L. Shropshire,Collin D. Williams Pdf

In The Miseducation of the Student Athlete: How to Fix College Sports, Kenneth L. Shropshire and Collin D. Williams, Jr., introduce The Student-Athlete Manifesto, a roadmap to increase the likelihood that student-athletes can succeed both on and off the field. They also offer a Meaningful Degree Model, which ensures education pays for everyone.

Author : Samantha N. Sheppard
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780520307773

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Sporting Blackness by Samantha N. Sheppard Pdf

Sporting Blackness examines issues of race and representation in sports films, exploring what it means to embody, perform, play out, and contest blackness by representations of Black athletes on screen. By presenting new critical terms, Sheppard analyzes not only “skin in the game,” or how racial representation shapes the genre’s imagery, but also “skin in the genre,” or the formal consequences of blackness on the sport film genre’s modes, codes, and conventions. Through a rich interdisciplinary approach, Sheppard argues that representations of Black sporting bodies contain “critical muscle memories”: embodied, kinesthetic, and cinematic histories that go beyond a film’s plot to index, circulate, and reproduce broader narratives about Black sporting and non-sporting experiences in American society.

Author : Emma Poulton,Martin Roderick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:474084825

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Sport in Films by Emma Poulton,Martin Roderick Pdf