The Sports Film : Games People Play
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Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Short Cuts
ISBN-10
0231169655
ISBN-13
9780231169653
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Imprint
Wallflower Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Mar 18th, 2014
Print length
144 Pages
Weight
198 grams
Dimensions
20.10 x 15.40 x 0.90 cms
Product Classification:
Film: styles & genres
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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.
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