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Representations of Sports Coaches in Film: Looking to Win 1st edition
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Representations of Sports Coaches in Film: Looking to Win
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.
144 pages
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | March 30, 2017 |
| ISBN13 | 9781138636279 |
| Publishers | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Pages | 144 |
| Dimensions | 150 × 220 × 20 mm · 430 g |
| Language | English |
| Editor | Bonzel, Katharina (Australian National University, Australia) |
| Editor | Chare, Nicholas (Universite de Montreal, Canada) |
