Sports film

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A sports film is a film in which athletes , sports or sporting events are the focus of the action.

The Sports Science Lexicon (Röthig, 1992) defines sports films as follows: “Sports films in the true sense are films that are significantly shaped by their specially designed sports-related content. In a further unspecific sense, those films can also be designated as sports films that to a certain extent take up topics from sports, but which are not decisive for the film. [...] “The definition suggests that elements of sport are often incorporated into the dramaturgy of films without these elements becoming essential for the plot of a film.

On the question of whether sports films form a separate film genre , similar to westerns , comedy or film noir , different points of view are represented in literature (cf. Rowe, 1998; Philpott, 2000). Sports film is recognized as an independent genre in current publications. Due to the large number of films, sub-genres such as football, basketball, boxing, Olympic and martial arts films are named. Japanese animated films also have an established, independent sports genre .

literature

  • Hilmar Hoffmann (Ed.): Sport in the feature film. A documentation . Laufen, Oberhausen 1970, DNB 456140344 .
  • Gottlieb Florschütz: Sport in film and television. Between infotainment and spectacle . Deutscher Universitäts-Verlag, Wiesbaden 2005, ISBN 3-8350-6019-8 .
  • Andreas Höfer (Red.): One-two. Football and film . Publication on the occasion of the symposium on June 3, 2006 for the Doppelpass - Frankfurt Football Film Festival, a series of events by the German Film Museum and the German Olympic Institute from April 20 to June 6, 2006. Belleville-Verlag, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-936298-44 -0 .
  • Werner Veith: Movement - Images - Messages. Sports fiction and sport in the context of modern societies. In: Thomas Bohrmann, Werner Veith, Stephan Zöller (Eds.): Handbuch Theologie und Popular Film . Volume 2, Ferdinand Schöningh Verlag, Paderborn 2009, ISBN 978-3-506-76733-2 , pp. 67-82.
  • Robert Gugutzer , Barbara Englert (Hrsg.): Sport in Film - For the scientific discovery of a misunderstood genre. UVK-Verlag, 2014, ISBN 978-3-86764-483-9 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gottfried Florschütz: Sport in Film and Television. Between infotainment and spectacle. Deutscher Universitätsverlag, 2005, ISBN 3-8350-6019-8 .
  2. P. Röthig (Ed.): Sportwissenschaftliches Lexikon. Hofmann, Schorndorf 1992.
  3. ^ R. Philpott: Sport in the cinema. In: L. Allison (Ed.): Taking sport seriously. Meyer & Meyer, Oxford / Aachen 2000, pp. 173–191.
  4. ^ D. Rowe: If you film it, will they come? Sports on film. In: Journal of Sport & Social Issues. (22) 4. 1998, pp. 350-359.
  5. Kai Marcel Sicks, Markus Stauff (ed.): Film genres. Sports film. Philipp Reclam jun., Stuttgart 2010.
  6. a b Robert Gugutzer, Barbara Englert (Ed.): Sport in Film - For the scientific discovery of a misunderstood genre. UVK-Verlag, 2014, ISBN 978-3-86764-483-9 .