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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.

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      Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing Inc
      Publication Date: 1/31/2024
      ISBN13: 9781636677941, 978-1636677941
      ISBN10: 1636677940

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      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.

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