Sport, Film, and the Modern World

Lawrence A. Wenner, Andrew C. Billings, Marie Hardin , Neil Archer

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Peter Lang Publishing Inc
31 May 2024

Theory of art; Film theory & criticism; Film & movie: styles & genres; Philosophy: aesthetics

Series: Communication, Sport, and Society

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.

By: Neil Archer
Series edited by: Lawrence A. Wenner, Andrew C. Billings, Marie Hardin
Imprint: Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: New edition
Volume: 11
Dimensions: Height: 225mm, Width: 150mm,
Weight: 358g
ISBN: 9781636677941
ISBN 10: 1636677940
Series: Communication, Sport, and Society
Pages: 236
Publication Date: 31 May 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Modernity, Sport, and Film: Starting line From Cars to Chariots and Back Again, via Le Mans: The Modernist Impact of Sport and Film Cities and Bodies in Motion: Modernist Trajectories in the Parkour Film Winning Ugly: Moneyballing the Sports Film Winning Uglier: Ethical Dilemmas in the Sports Biopic Subjectivity in the Twenty-First-Century Sports Documentary Going Solo: Ecocritical Approaches to the ‘Extreme’ Sports Film Film vs Sport: Endgame

Neil Archer is Senior Lecturer in Film at Keele University (UK). He is the author of eight previous books, including Twenty-First-Century Hollywood: Rebooting the System (2019) and The Social Network: Youth Film 2.0 (2022).