Sport in Films
Sport 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.
Yet despite its regularity as a central theme in motion pictures, constructions and representations of sport and athletes have been marginalised in terms of...
Sport 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.
Yet despite its regularity as a central theme in motion pictures, constructions and representations of sport and athletes have been marginalised in terms of...