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.
Tabella dei contenuti
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Start of Play
1 Dominant Presences: One
2 Dominant Presences: Two
3 Four Major Sports Films
Chariots of Fire
Field of Dreams
Lagaan
Any Given Sunday
Filmography
Bibliography
Index
Circa l’autore
Bruce Babington is emeritus professor of film at Newcastle University, UK. He has written, co-written and edited many books on the Hollywood, British, and New Zealand cinemas.
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