National Pastimes – Cinema, Sports, and Nation Bonzel Hardback John Wiley & Sons

National PastimesCinema, Sports, and Nation\nAuthor(s): Katharina Bonzel\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Nebraska Press, United States\nImprint: University of Nebraska Press\nISBN-13: 9781496215529, 978-1496215529\nSynopsis\nSports have long fascinated filmmakers from Hollywood and beyond, from Bend It Like Beckham to Chariots of Fire to Rocky. Though sports films are diverse in their approach, style, and storytelling modes, National Pastimes discloses the common emotional and visual cues that belie each sports films 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.\n\n As films reflect the ways in which myths of nation and national belonging change over tim.