Babington Bruce - The Sports Film Games People Play - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: 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.
Title: The Sports Film Games People Play
Author(s): Babington Bruce
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Barcode: 9780231169653
Pages: 144 Pages, 25 B&W
Publication Date: 3/18/2014
Series: Short Cuts
Category: Film: Styles & Genres