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May 6, 2019 · Set against the political backdrop of Australia’s refugee policy and the racism it generates, Mark Grentell’s (2018) uses the genre of the sports film to explore – and ultimately challenge –...
- Are You Monomythic? Joseph Campbell and The Hero's Journey
The hero’s journey in three stages - separation, initiation,...
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Damian Callinan, Josh McConville, Nick Cody, Sahil Saluja,...
- Are You Monomythic? Joseph Campbell and The Hero's Journey
- Conflict Drives The Sports Drama
- It's About The How and Why — Not The Big Game Or Big Fight
- The Sport Is Just A Disguise
- Challenge The Sports Movie Formula
- Fact vs. Fiction Sports Stories
The underdog story thrives because of the conflict of being an underdog — whether it's a character that has never had their shot because of whatever circumstance, or a character that has fallen from grace after being at the top of their game. Conflict is what is engaging in every story within every genre. It drives the characters. It challenges the...
It's the journey, not the destination. How many times have we heard those wise words of wisdom? It's so true when it comes to any great sports movie. The reason that the Rocky franchise continued to succeed — with the exception of Rocky V for some (I love it) — was because audiences were enthralled with how Rocky was going to handle the latest chal...
The Rocky films were never about boxing. Jerry Maguire was never about football. Field of Dreamswas never about baseball. Rocky was about an underdog struggling to prove himself. Jerry Maguire was about an overachiever discovering what success in life really was. Field of Dreamswas about regret and forgiveness. Each of those films had just a minori...
Yes, the underdog story itself is clichéd. But it's perhaps the most consistently successful cliché in the history of cinema — especially within the specific genre of the sports movie. So feel free to embrace that. The challenge lies in the hows and whys of the underdog story. You need to challenge yourself to tell different versions of that underd...
While many of the great sports movies are clearly fictional, the current obsession in Hollywood is finding true stories to tell. They believe that audiences are more interested and engaged by movies inspired by or based directly on real-life stories that have actually happened. The box office numbers tend to back that notion up. Almost 50% of the t...
Dec 24, 2020 · By offering a glimpse of the real and often hidden stories behind the athlete’s (or team’s) personae, makers of biopics not only solidify the portrayal of genuine celebrities but they also critique, between awe and excess, broader narratives of sport stardom and its reproduction in film.
Yes, sports movies can be filled with clichés, but there are many that manage to either subvert them or deliver them with so much emotion it’s like experiencing them for the first time.
Oct 5, 2018 · The first asks whether sports are important for individuals’ social development: Sports as socialization. A second statement claims that local-level sports might bring together different groups of people in positive ways within communities: Sports as social integration.
- Ørnulf Seippel
- 2019
Oct 17, 2022 · Sports are experiential realms where we stage and process personal and public concerns—a hermeneutic work carried out by contestants and audiences alike. The microcosmos of sport is never far from, and always in, dialog with its orbiting cultural systems of codes, narratives, and myths.
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Oct 25, 2013 · The following is a collection of films, both fiction and non-fiction, that have been recommended for use in a Sport and Society course. We encourage you to recommend additional films, readings to be used alongside the films, or tell us about your experience.
