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The sports film : games people play /

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 a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Babington, Bruce (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Wallflower, 2014.
Colección:Short cuts.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario: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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (133 pages) : illustrations, photographs
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.
ISBN:9780231850575
0231850573
0231169655
9780231169653