The Sports Film : Games People Play / Bruce Babington.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Babington, Bruce, author.

Series:

Short cuts.

Short Cuts

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sports films--History and criticism.

Sports films.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (133 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Start of Play

1. Dominant Presences: One

2. Dominant Presences: Two

3. Four Major Sports Films

Filmography

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Pilot project,eBook available to selected US libraries only

Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

9780231850575

0231850573

OCLC:

870946670