{"product_id":"sport-in-films","title":"Sport in Films","description":"\u003cp\u003eSport offers everything a good story should have: heroes and villains, triumph and disaster, achievement and despair, tension and drama. Consequently, sport makes for a compelling film narrative and films, in turn, are a vivid medium for sport.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYet despite its regularity as a central theme in motion pictures, constructions and representations of sport and athletes have been marginalised in terms of serious analysis within the longstanding academic study of films and documentaries.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this collection, it is the critical study of film and its connections to sport that are examined.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe collection is one of the first of its kind to examine the ways in which sport has been used in films as a metaphor for other areas of social life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmong the themes and issues explored by the contributors are:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eMorality tales in which good triumphs over evil\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eThe representation and ideological framing of social identities, including class, gender, race and nationality\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eThe representation of key issues pertinent to sport, including globalization, politics, commodification, consumerism, and violence\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eThe meanings ‘spoken’ by films – and the various ‘readings’ which audiences make of them\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a timely collection that draws together a diverse range of accessible, insightful and ground-breaking new essays.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book was published as a special issue of \u003cem\u003eSport in Society\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45590235119854,"sku":"9780415572217","price":91.2,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0630\/9612\/7726\/files\/9780415572217_e7a68f4e-8fbf-4f27-9977-65cba305203e.jpg?v=1721231995","url":"https:\/\/bookland.com.au\/products\/sport-in-films","provider":"Book Land AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}