Visual Economies Of/In Motion: Sport and Film

By C. Richard King

Sport films have been central to American cinema, playing an increasingly important role in the communication of a commonsense understanding of race, gender, class, history, and social relations. Oddly, scholars have neglected sport films and their significance. Offering a comparative, theoretically grounded, and interdisciplinary approach, Visual Economies of/in Motion marks a novel and important point of departure in sport studies and cultural studies. It brings together a dozen essays on feature films and documentaries to probe the articulation of ideologies and identities, play and power, and sporting worlds and social fields.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820478520
• ISBN13: 9780820478524
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"