Tag: Neil Archer

Neil Archer rethinks the discussion of sport as a cinematic subject in his new book Sport, Film, and the Modern World (Peter Lang Publishing). Arguing for the vitality of the sports film as distinctively ‘modern’ genre, the book looks at its innovative potential to capture twentieth- and twenty-first-century sport in all its complexity. Prominent sport film scholar Seán Crosson is our reviewer, and while not uncritical, he finds that Archer’s book overall offers an insightful analysis of recent work and an ultimately convincing central argument for the importance of sport cinema.

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: Where do they all come from? Youth, fitness gyms, sport clubs and social inequality by Mads Skauge & Ørnulf Seippel.