{"product_id":"national-pastimes-cinema-sports-and-nation-hardback-9781496215529","title":"National Pastimes; Cinema, Sports, and Nation (Hardback) 9781496215529","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eNational Pastimes\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eCinema, Sports, and Nation\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eKatharina Bonzel (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781496215529\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 1 January 2020\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e252 pages, 21 photographs, index\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e“Bonzel’s book joins Bruce Babington’s \u003ci\u003eThe Sports Film: Games People Play\u003c\/i\u003e (2014) as an important book-length critical treatment of this film genre.”-S. C. Dillon, \u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“Katharina Bonzel eloquently explores the complex intersections that exist between national identity and class, ethnicity, and gender in sports films. Her historically nuanced readings trace the complex ways in which sports films have sought to generate a sense of emotional authenticity that promotes audience engagement with their visions of the nation. . . . [This is] a valuable intervention both in film theory and in ongoing debates about national identity.”-Nicholas Chare, author of \u003ci\u003eSportswomen in Cinema\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“Analyzing more than a dozen well-known films from the U.S., UK, and-importantly and unusually-Germany, Bonzel demonstrates how and why our sense of belonging to (or marginalization within) a nation morphs over time. This book is for anyone interested in national myths, dreams, anxieties, and nightmares, as conveyed through sports films. A welcome study of a burgeoning and influential film genre!”-Chris Holmlund, professor emerita of cinema studies, women\/gender\/sexuality studies, and French at the University of Tennessee\u003cbr\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“Sports and cinema are two of the most popular and significant cultural institutions in the contemporary world. Despite arguments to the contrary, the nation remains perhaps the world’s most potent sociopolitical construct. This book is without doubt a contribution not only to one field but to several.”-Alan Bairner, professor of sport and social theory at Loughborough University’s School of Sport, Exercise, and Health Sciences\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"Sports fans, movie fans and readers who are interested in social and political issues will all find something of interest in this book.\"-Lance Smith, \u003ci\u003eGuy Who Reviews Sports Books\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSports have long fascinated filmmakers from Hollywood and beyond, from \u003ci\u003eBend It Like Beckham\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eChariots of Fire\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eRocky\u003c\/i\u003e. Though sports films are diverse in their approach, style, and storytelling modes, \u003ci\u003eNational Pastimes\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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. \u003ci\u003eNational Pastimes\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 1. “\u003cbr\u003eLet Us Praise Famous Men”\u003cbr\u003e: Creating Myth and Memory in \u003ci\u003eChariots of Fire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 2. Unifying Germany: \u003ci\u003eThe Miracle of Bern\u003c\/i\u003e and National Identity\u003cbr\u003e 3. Anxious in America: Rocky Balboa and the American Dream\u003cbr\u003e 4. Small Towns, Big Dreams: American Pastoral, Race, and the Sports Film\u003cbr\u003e 5. Gendering the Nation: The “\u003cbr\u003eHero Other”\u003cbr\u003e in Sports Films\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52599898177816,"sku":"9781496215529","price":33.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/national-pastimes-cinema-sports-and-nation-hardback-9781496215529","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}