DownloadThe Portobello Bookshop Gift Guide 2024

Sport, Film, and the Modern World

Neil Archer author Andrew C Billings editor Marie Hardin editor Lawrence A Wenner editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Peter Lang Publishing Inc

Published:31st May '24

Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back

This hardback is available in another edition too:

Sport, Film, and the Modern World cover

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.

ISBN: 9781636677958

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 430g

236 pages

New edition