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Sports have long fascinated filmmakers from Hollywood and beyond, from Bend It Like Beckham to Chariots of Fire to Rocky. Though sports films are diverse in their approach, style, and storytelling modes, National Pastimes discloses the common emotional and visual cues that belie each sports film's underlying nationalistic impulses. Katharina Bonzel unravels the delicate matrix of national identity, sports, and emotion through the lens of popular sports films in comparative national contexts, demonstrating in the process how popular culture provides a powerful vehicle for the development and maintenance of identities of place across a range of national cinemas. As films reflect the ways in which myths of nation and national belonging change over time, they are implicated in important historical moments, from Cold War America to the class dynamics of 1980s Thatcherite Britain to the fragmented sense of nation in post-unification Germany. Bonzel shows how sports films provide a means for renegotiating the boundaries of national identity in an accessible, engaging form. National Pastimes opens up new ways of understanding how films appeal to the emotions, using myth-like constructions of the past to cultivate spectators'engagement with historical events. -- Publisher

National characteristics in motion pictures. --- Nationalism in motion pictures. --- Sports films --- History.

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"Sportswomen in Cinema considers both documentary and fiction films from a variety of periods and cultures, by directors including Kathryn Bigelow, Gurinder Chadha, Im Soon-rye, George Kukor, Ida Lupino, and Leni Riefenstahl. Drawing from psychoanalytic and phenomenological theories, the book presents a series of landmark close readings of films featuring a variety of different forms of athletic activity, including baseball, basketball, bodybuilding, boxing, climbing, football, rollerderby, surfing, tennis and track and field. In focusing on themes such as gesture, screen space and sound, it moves beyond a purely narrative analysis of sports films. What's more, as well as building on existing scholarship in sports studies to argue that sport should always be conceived of as more than simply competitive, the book also contributes to ongoing efforts in film theory to foster new feminist discourses on sexual difference. The ideas of thinkers such as Judith Butler, Bracha Ettinger, Griselda Pollock and Michel Serres are employed to explore how films featuring female athletes reflect changing perspectives on femininity and sexuality and also, potentially, contribute to transforming our perceptions about sportswomen and cinema. Sportswomen in Cinema is an important addition to the literature of film studies, gender studies and sports studies."--

Sports films --- Women in motion pictures. --- Women athletes. --- History and criticism.

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La rencontre de l'image et du sport remonte presque à leurs origines respectives : dès la fin du XIXe siècle, les premières captations animées par Étienne-Jules Marey et Georges Demenÿ ont servi à analyser le mouvement et les gestes athlétiques. Depuis, le sport a toujours accompagné l'histoire du cinéma, certaines disciplines plus que d'autres ayant davantage attiré l'attention des scénaristes.Avec le concours des grands studios, bien des longs métrages ont marqué de leur empreinte l'histoire culturelle, allant du burlesque au nationalisme, de l'action pure à l'économie du sport, de l'olympisme à la folie supportériste. Ces fictions, qui répondent d'abord aux attentes commerciales d'un marché en expansion, constituent néanmoins un corpus d'analyse riche et original pour les chercheurs en sciences humaines et sociales. Bien que certains aient déjà investi la question sous l'angle dramaturgique, historique ou sociétal, plus rares sont ceux à s'être intéressés à la dimension technique, pourtant essentielle.En déplaçant ainsi notre regard vers l'effort sportif ou la figuration de l'athlète, cet ouvrage (ré)interroge, entre réalité et fiction, performance et esthétique, adaptation et transposition, un registre fondamental de la culture sportive contemporaine.

Sports --- Au cinéma. --- Cinéma -- Thèmes, motifs --- Au cinéma --- Thèmes, motifs --- Sports in motion pictures. --- Sports films --- History and criticism.

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"Through the heart of Hollywood cinema runs a surprising current of progressive politics. Sports movies, a genre that has flourished since the mid-seventies, evoke the American dream and represent the nation to itself. Once considered mere credos for Reaganism, on closer view, movies from Rocky (1976) to Ali (2001) dream of democratic participation and recognition more than individual success. In every case, off-field relationships take precedence over on-field competition. Arranged chronologically, this critical study of six major sports films also tells the story of multiculturalism's gradual adoption. The mainstream's first minority heroes are paradoxically white ethnic, rural, working-class men, exemplified by Rocky, Slap Shot (1977) and The Natural (1984); Black, brown, and women characters follow in White Men Can't Jump (1992), A League of Their Own (1992), and Ali. But despite their insistence on community and diversity these popular dramas show limited faith in civic institutions. Hannah Arendt, Jeffrey Alexander, and others inform original analysis and commentary on the political significance of popular culture. Reading these familiar movies from another angle paints a fresh picture of how the United States has imagined democracy since its bicentennial"--

Sports films --- Motion pictures --- Sports in motion pictures. --- Sports in popular culture. --- Popular culture --- Sports --- History and criticism. --- History --- Political aspects --- Social aspects --- United States --- Politics and government --- Sports in motion pictures --- Sports in popular culture

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Almost right from the introduction of baseball to Japan the sport was regarded as qualitatively different from the original American model. This vision of Japanese baseball associates the sport with steadfast devotion (magokoro) and the values of the samurai class in the code of Bushidō, in which greatness is achieved through hard work under the tutelage of a selfless master.In Contesting the Myths of Samurai Baseball Keaveney analyzes the persistent appeal of such mythologizing, arguing that the sport has been serving as a repository for traditional values, to which the Japanese have returned time and again in epochs of uncertainty and change. Baseball and modern culture emerged and developed side by side in Japan, giving cultural representations of this national pastime special insights into Japanese values and their contortions from the late nineteenth century to the present day. Keaveney explains the origins of the cultural construct "Samurai baseball" and reflects on the recurrences of these essentialist discourses at critical junctures in Japan's modern history. Since the early modern period, writers, filmmakers, and manga artists have alternately affirmed and debunked these popular myths of baseball. This study presents an overview of these cultural products, beginning with Masaoka Shiki's pioneering baseball writings, then moves on to the long history of baseball films and the venerable tradition of baseball fiction, and finally considers the substantial body of baseball manga and anime. Perhaps what is most striking is the continuous relevance of baseball and its values as a point of cultural reference for the Japanese people; their engagement with baseball is a genuine national love affair.

Popular culture --- Bushido --- Baseball in literature --- Baseball films --- Baseball --- Base-ball --- Ball games --- Sports films --- Chivalry --- Ethics --- National characteristics, Japanese --- Samurai --- Culture, Popular --- Mass culture --- Pop culture --- Popular arts --- Communication --- Intellectual life --- Mass society --- Recreation --- Culture --- Study and teaching --- History and criticism. --- Social aspects --- History. --- History and criticism --- History --- E-books --- J6955 --- J4143 --- Japan: Sports and recreation -- baseball, softball --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- cultural trends and movements -- popular culture