The Sports Film : Games People Play /

After covering the genre's early history and theorizing its general characteristics, this volume then focuses on specific instances of sports films, such as the biopic, the sports history film, the documentary, the fan film, the boxing film, and explores issues such as gender, race, spectacle a...

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Main Author: Babington, Bruce (Author)
Corporate Author: De Gruyter
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2014]
New York, NY : [2014]
Edition:Pilot project. eBook available to selected US libraries only
Series:Short cuts
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