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Representations of Sports Coaches in Film: Looking to Win

Representations of Sports Coaches in Film: Looking to Win

Hardcover

Sports General

ISBN10: 1138636274
ISBN13: 9781138636279
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Mar 30 2017
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.38 Width: 6.69 Depth: 9.61
Language: English

This ground-breaking interdisciplinary collection brings together leading international scholars working across the humanities and social sciences to examine ways in which representations of sports coaching in narrative and documentary cinema can shape and inform sporting instruction. The central premise of the volume is that films featuring sports coaches potentially reflect, reinforce or contest how their audiences comprehend the world of coaching. Despite the growing interest in theories of coaching and in the study of the sports film as a genre, specific analyses of filmic depictions of sports coaches are still rare despite coaches often having a central role as figures shaping the values, social situation and cultural expectations of the athletes they train. By way of a series of enlightening and original studies, this volume redresses the relative neglect afforded to sports coaching in film and simultaneously highlights the immense value that research in this emerging field has for sporting performance and social justice.

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