Sport, Film and National Culture

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.

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 Mussoliniʼs 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