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Author Bonzel, Katharina, author.

Title National pastimes : cinema, sports, and nation / Katharina Bonzel.

Publication Info. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2020]

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Description 1 online resource (253 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Sports, Media, and Society
Sports, media, and society.
Contents Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. ""Let Us Praise Famous Men; 2. Unifying Germany; 3. Anxious in America; 4. Small Towns, Big Dreams; 5. Gendering the Nation; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-221) and index.
Summary 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. 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.National Pastimes 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.
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Subject Sports films -- History.
Sports films.
History.
Nationalism in motion pictures.
Nationalism in motion pictures.
National characteristics in motion pictures.
National characteristics in motion pictures.
Indexed Term Australian
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Bonzel, Katharina. National Pastimes : Cinema, Sports, and Nation. Lincoln : UNP - Nebraska, ©2020 9781496215529
ISBN 1496218264 (electronic book)
9781496218261 (electronic book)
9781496215529 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
1496215524
9781496218247 (epub)
9781496218254 (mobi)
Standard No. 40029583841