The Cinema of Hockey

Four Decades of the Game on Screen

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by Iri Cermak

Type

Dictionaries

Subject

Countries > United States

Keywords

sports, United States

Publishing date

2017

Publisher

McFarland & Co

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 344 pages
7 x 10 inches (18 x 25.5 cm)

ISBN

978-1-4766-6625-9

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Book Presentation:
Ice hockey has featured in North American films since the early days. Hockey’s sizable cinematic repertoire explores different views of the sport, including the role of aggression, the business of sports, race and gender, and the role of women in the game. This critical study focuses on hockey themes in more than 50 films and television movies from the U.S. and Canada spanning several decades. Depictions of historical games are discussed, including the 1980 “Miracle on Ice” and the 1972 Summit Series. National myths that inform ideas of the hockey player are examined. Production techniques that enhance hockey as on-screen spectacle are covered.

About the Author:
Iri Cermak is a media studies researcher. Her prior work has included hockey in United States and Canadian Olympic television broadcasts and documentary film. She lives in Panama.

Press Reviews:
"Employing a close textual analysis of hockey film scripts and a wide range of scholarly sources that include media, film, and literature studies, The Cinema of Hockey offers itself as the first cultural analysis and history of hockey on film….[It presents] a well-structured analysis with new research on hockey cinema and the many interpretive themes these films present to viewers."—Sport in American History
"Well written, heavily researched, and certainly is recommended as a resource."—Journal of American Culture/li>
"The first comprehensive study"—Nordic Sport Science Forum
"Cermak has outdone herself in curating quite a collection of films and telefilms depicting all representations of hockey…Cermak’s efforts in examining hockey through film as a vehicle for symbolic representations showcase the book’s strength"—Journal of the American Studies Association of Texas
"Well written, heavily researched…recommended…Cermark displays a knowledge of the scholarship on a variety of film genres from family films to road movies, in addition to a remarkable awareness of the literature on Canadian media"—The Journal of American Culture
"[A] major contribution."—Brian Kennedy, Pasadena City College, author of Facing Wayne Gretzky

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