Sport, Film and National Culture (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Crosson, Seán

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Sport and film have historically been key components of national cultures and societies. This is the first collection dedicated to examining the intersection of these popular cultural forces within specific national contexts.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. August 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000172508
• Artikelnr.: 59751140

Autorenporträt

Seán Crosson is Leader of the Sport & Exercise Research Group, Co-Director of the MA in Sports Journalism and Communication, and Director of Graduate Research and Teaching in the Huston School of Film & Digital Media, National University of Ireland Galway.

Inhaltsangabe

Sport
Film
and National Culture: An Introduction
Part I: Sport
Cinema
and National Culture in the USA
1. Adapting an 'American' Football Biopic: Knute Rockne: All American
2. Esther Williams
Americanness
the Aquacade and Sex: 'A Swirl of Red
White and Blue Flags and Chesty Swimmers with Their Chins Up'
3. Multicultural American Heroes: Reading the Recent Biopics of Jackie Robinson and Jesse Owens Through the Lens of American Civil Religion
4. Sports Film and the Reimagining of American Popular Culture: Billie Jean and Tonya
Part II: The European Experience
5. Sport Films and 'Banal' Nationalism in Interwar Belgium: Flandria Film
Mythomoteurs and the Cult of the 'Flandriens'
6. Sport and National Culture in Swedish Film
7. Soccer
Film
and the Third Reich: Hunters
Cowards
and Glory
8. Primo Carnera
Propaganda and Mussolini¿s International Legitimisation: The Boxer who was a Passport for Fascism
9. Football
Cinema and Spanish Nationalism: Decoding the Francoist Film Campeones (1943)
10. Cricket
Film and British National Identity: On a Sticky Wicket?
Part III: Beyond Hollywood and Europe
11. Netball and National Identity in Aotearoa New Zealand Cinema Newsreels 1930-1959: 'There's a new life in the sporting world'
12. Football
National Culture and Politics in Brazil in 1970: O ano em que meus pais saíram de férias (The year my parents went on vacation)
13. Contesting Visions of Ethiopia in Two Amharic Sports Films: Between Film Festivals and Local Commercial Cinema
14. Reconstructing Taiwanese National Identity in the Sports Film: Small Nation
Sports
and Cultural Heterogeneity