After covering the genre's early history and theorizing its general characteristics, this volume then focuses on specific instances of sports films, such as the biopic, the sports history film, the documentary, the fan film, the boxing film, and explores issues such as gender, race, spectacle and silent comedy. Four major films are then closely analysed – Chariots of Fire, Field of Dreams, the Indian cricket epic Lagaan, and Oliver Stone's Any Given Sunday. While recording American film's importance to the genre, the book resists the conventional over-concentration on American cinema and sports by its attention to other cinemas, for example the British, Indian, Australian, South Korean, Thai, German, New Zealand, Spanish, and so on, with the many different sports they depict.

The Sports Film: Games People Play (Short Cuts)

Humor & Entertainment

Babington, Bruce

Movies

Wallflower Press

The story of Carmen, the Spanish Gypsy femme fatale, is one of the most adapted stories in the history of cinema. The films are often a combination of Mérimée’s 1845 novella and the opera Bizet fashioned from the novella thirty years later. Carmen on Film: A Cultural History focuses on 16 of the most important Carmen films, ranging across three main cinemas (Hollywood, France, and Spain), stretching from the earliest films to the most recent (by director): Calmettes (1910), DeMille (1915), Walsh (1915), Chaplin (1916), Lubitsch (1918), Walsh (1927), Feyder (1926), Rey (1938), Vidor (1948), Preminger (1954), Demicheli (1959), Saura (1983), Godard (1984), Rosi (1984), Ramaka (2001), and Aranda (2003).
The story of Carmen has captured the imagination of audiences and readers for more than 150 years. Powrie, Babington, Davies, and Perriam ask why—and in their examination of the numerous cinematic retellings of this popular tale, they offer insight into the cultural significance of the fictional lives and deaths of Carmen.

Carmen on Film: A Cultural History

Davies, Ann

Perriam, Chris

Powrie, Phil

Biddle, Ian

Indiana University Press

Blue Skies and Silver Linings: Aspects of the Hollywood Musical

Evans, Peter William

Manchester Univ Pr

Affairs to Remember: The Hollywood Comedy of the Sexes

An analysis of the great Hollywood classic comedy genre from "Bringing up Baby" in the 1930s right up to Dustin Hoffman's "Tootsie", this book also looks at the work of Bob Hope, Mae West and Woody Allen in order to discover the social and sexual dynamics of film comedy. Babington and Evans have also co-authored "Blue Skies and Silver Linings". The book is intended for students of film studies and enthusiasts of American popular culture.

Affairs to remember: The Hollywood comedy of the sexes

Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press

An analysis of the great Hollywood classic comedy genre from "Bringing up Baby" in the 1930s right up to Dustin Hoffman's "Tootsie", this book also looks at the work of Bob Hope, Mae West and Woody Allen in order to discover the social and sexual dynamics of film comedy. Babington and Evans have also co-authored "Blue Skies and Silver Linings". The book is intended for students of film studies and enthusiasts of American popular culture.

Biblical Epics: Sacred Narrative in the Hollywood Cinema

Arts & Photography

Performing Arts

This is a major survey and analysis of the relationship between religion and film, and traces the development of this genre in Hollywood. The book examines the impact of religion, ethnicity, sexuality and gender on this complex genre, within the context of American history. The authors raise questions of narrative spectacle, Jewish-Christian relations, authorship, star meanings, the representation of Christ and sexual desire. The authors theorize the Biblical epic in its three main forms: the Old Testament epic; the Christ film; and the Roman-Christian epic. Films analyzed include "David and Bathsheba", "The Last Temptation of Christ", "The King of Kings", "The Greatest Story Ever Told", "Demetrius and the Gladiators", "Samson and Delilah" and "Ben Hur".

Launder and Gilliat

Launder and Gilliat formed one of the central partnerships in British film history as screenwriters of Hitchcock and Carol Reed films and auteurs in their own right. Bruce Babington's study of the pair is notable for its contextualizing within English and British culture over four decades, including British Cinema's 'golden age' of the war and post-war years, and its close reading of films that have been critically neglected, despite their popularity. From Waterloo Road to The Happiest Days of Your Life, their films registered the 'ideological climate' of wartime and post-war Britain in engaging and creative ways.

Manchester University Press

Bruce Babington analyses the achievement of one of the central partnerships in British film history, the screenwriters of famous films by Hitchcock and Carol Reed, who became the producer-writer-directors of a succession of famous and well-loved films including Millions Like Us, Two Thousand Women, Waterloo Road, The Rake's Progress, I See a Dark Stranger, The Blue Lagoon and The Happiest Days of Your Life. This study of the pair is notable both for its contextualising of them within English and British culture over four decades, including British cinema's 'golden age' of the war and immediate post-war years, and for its close reading of films that have been critically neglected, despite their popularity. Scholarly but not pedantic, the book shows its subjects to be not ordinary mainstream practitioners but deceptively serious filmmakers registering the 'ideological weather' of wartime and post-war Britain in engaging and creative ways.

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The Sports Film: Games People Play (Short Cuts)

Carmen on Film: A Cultural History

Carmen on Film: A Cultural History

Blue Skies and Silver Linings: Aspects of the Hollywood Musical

Affairs to remember: The Hollywood comedy of the sexes

Affairs to Remember: The Hollywood Comedy of the Sexes

Biblical Epics: Sacred Narrative in the Hollywood Cinema

Biblical Epics: Sacred Narrative in the Hollywood Cinema

Launder and Gilliat

Launder and Gilliat