The British Football Film

• Main Author: Glynn, Stephen (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Motion pictures-Great Britain.; Ethnology-Europe.; Sports-Sociological aspects.; British Cinema and TV.; British Culture.; Sociology of Sport and Leisure.

This book constitutes the first full volume dedicated to an academic analysis of British football as depicted on film. From early single-camera silents to its current multi-screen mediations, the repeated treatment of football in British cinema points to the game's importance not only in the ev...

Table of Contents:

• Part I. Introduction
• 1. The British Football Film: The Rules of the Game
• Part II. The Professionals
• 2. Machinations
• 3. Mavericks
• 4. Managers
• Part III. The Amateurs
• 5. Cons
• 6. Kids
• 7. Sunday Soccer
• Part IV. The Supporters
• 8. Gambling
• 9. Getting There
• 10. Gangs
• Part V. Conclusion
• 11. The British School Film: Directors and Directions.