Sport, Film, and the Modern World

Rethinking the discussion of sport and cinema, Sport, Film, and the Modern World takes an inter-disciplinary approach to the sports movie. Exploring a range of films, from fictional works and biopics to experimental documentaries, the book argues for the sports film’s ability to illuminate individual sporting experience.

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This book rethinks the discussion of sport as a cinematic subject. Arguing for the vitality of the sports film as distinctively ‘modern’ genre, the book looks at its innovative potential to capture twentieth- and twenty-first-century sport in all its complexity.


Written in an accessible style and illustrated throughout, the book integrates work and ideas from film studies with thinking from sports psychology, philosophy, data theory and ecocriticism. In its detailed analyses of a wide-ranging group of films, the book shows how film, from fictional works to biopics to experimental documentaries, can illuminate individual sporting experience, as well as sport’s wider place in modern life.