Table of Contents

Introduction: Why Sport and Film? Chapter 1: Reading the Sports Film Chapter 2: Early Cinema and the Emergence of the Sports Film Chapter 3: The Sports Film Genre Chapter 4: ‘Truths that tell a lie’: Race, Social Class and the American Dream in the Sports Film Chapter 5: Gender and the Sports Film Chapter 6: The Sports Film, National Culture and Identity Conclusion: 9/11 and the Contemporary Mainstream Sports Film

About the Author

Seán Crosson is Programme Director of the MA in Film Studies: Theory and Practice in the Huston School of Film & Digital Media at NUI, Galway, Ireland. He has published widely on film, focusing in particular in recent years on the representation of sport in film. His previous publications include (as co-editor) the collection Sport, Representation and Evolving Identities in Europe (Peter Lang, 2010) and a special issue of Media History journal on 'Sport and the Media in Ireland' (2011).

Reviews

"Sport and Film is an important addition to the literature which, though not primarily historical in orientation, will be of considerable interest to sports historians." – Marcus Free, The International Journal of the History of Sport, Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, Ireland"Seán Crosson can be deservedly said to have moved the ‘frontiers of sport’ and should inspire students to engage with both sport in film and film in sport." – John Bale, Sport in History, Keele University, UK