{"product_id":"9781496215529-national-pastimes","title":"National Pastimes","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCinema, Sports, and Nation. Katharina Bonzel unravels the delicate matrix of national identity, sports, and emotion through the lens of popular sports films in comparative national contexts.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  . Sports have long fascinated filmmakers from Hollywood and beyond, from \u003ci\u003eBend It Like Beckham\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eChariots of Fire\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eRocky\u003c\/i\u003e. Though sports films are diverse in their approach, style, and storytelling modes, \u003ci\u003eNational Pastimes\u003c\/i\u003e discloses the common emotional and visual cues that belie each sports film’s underlying nationalistic impulses. Katharina Bonzel unravels the delicate matrix of national identity, sports, and emotion through the lens of popular sports films in comparative national contexts, demonstrating in the process how popular culture provides a powerful vehicle for the development and maintenance of identities of place across a range of national cinemas.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e As films reflect the ways in which myths of nation and national belonging change over time, they are implicated in important historical moments, from Cold War America to the class dynamics of 1980s Thatcherite Britain to the fragmented sense of nation in post-unification Germany. Bonzel shows how sports films provide a means for renegotiating the boundaries of national identity in an accessible, engaging form. \u003ci\u003eNational Pastimes\u003c\/i\u003e opens up new ways of understanding how films appeal to the emotions, using myth-like constructions of the past to cultivate spectators’ engagement with historical events.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40897141735521,"sku":"9781496215529","price":43.27,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/dea4292e4bb7ea2b58236b18f3ed6e13.png?v=1688748197","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781496215529-national-pastimes","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}