Representations of Sports Coaches in Film

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Edited by Katharina Bonzel and Nicholas Chare

Type

Studies

Subject

Sociology

Keywords

sports, characters, representation

Publishing date

2019

Publisher

Routledge

1st publishing

2017

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 144 pages
6 ¾ x 9 ½ inches (17 x 24 cm)

ISBN

978-0-367-13955-1

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Book Presentation:
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.

This book was originally published as a special issue of the journal Sports Coaching Review.

About the authors:
Katharina Bonzel is a Visiting Fellow in Screen Studies at the Australian National University, Australia, and is currently writing a book about the representation of national identity in sports films.

Nicholas Chare is Associate Professor of Modern Art in the Department of History of Art and Film Studies at the Université de Montréal, Canada. He is the author of Sportswomen in Cinema: Film and the Frailty Myth (2015).

See the publisher website: Routledge