Tag: André Mendes Capraro

Sport and film have historically been key components of national cultures and societies. Seán Crosson’s Sport, Film and National Culture (Routledge) is the first collection dedicated to examining the intersection of these popular cultural forces within specific national contexts. Garry Whannel, one of the world’s leading experts on the cultural analysis of media sport is our reviewer, and he is unequivocally enthusiastic; a few minor comments don’t affect the general coherence, focus and readability of the book.

Academics in various disciplines are writing about sport. Sport in Society is a multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary forum for academics to discuss the growing relationship of sport to significant areas of modern life. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: From sport-for-development to sports mega-events: conflict, authoritarian modernisation and statecraft in Azerbaijan by Joel Rookwood.(open access).

JS&T aims to publish research that makes a clear contribution, substantively, theoretically or methodologically, to the body of knowledge relating to all aspects of the relationship between sport and tourism. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: The role of psychological flow in adventure tourism: sociodemographic antecedents and consequences on word-of-mouth and life satisfaction by Cesare Amatulli, Alessandro M. Peluso, Andrea Sestino, Luca Petruzzellis & Gianluigi Guido.

The International Journal of the History of Sport is the world’s leading sport history academic periodical with fully-refereed global coverage of the subject. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: ‘OUR SPORT’: THE FIGHT FOR CONTROL OF WOMEN’S INTERNATIONAL ATHLETICS by Jörg Krieger, Michele Krech & Lindsay Parks Pieper.