| Description |
1 online resource (133 pages) |
| Series |
Short Cuts |
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Short cuts
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| Contents |
Table of Contents; 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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
25 B & W |
| Notes |
In English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Sports films -- History and criticism
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- History & Criticism.
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Sports films
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780231850575 |
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0231850573 |
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9780231169653 |
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0231169655 |
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