Introducing Sport in Films
(Emma Poulton & Martin Roderick, Durham University, UK)
Part 1: Sport and Film: A Match Made in Hollywood… and Studios Around the Globe
Consuming Sport Films (tbc Garry Crawford, University of Salford, UK)
Sport as a Film Genre (tbc: David Rowe, University of Western Sydney, Australia)
Paper title tbc (Ellis Cashmore, Staffordshire University, UK)
Sport Films in South Asia: A Genre (Boria Majumdar & Sharmistha Gooptu)
Martial Arts in Film (tbc)
Part 2: Representing Social Identities in Sport Films
Masculinities in American Sport Films 1990s-Present (Kyle Kusz, University of Rhode Island, USA)
Contested Identities of a Migrant Worker in Goal! (Aaron Baker, Arizona State University, USA)
Social Realism and Class in British Sport Films (John Hughson, University of Otago, New Zealand)
The Representation of Femininities in Sport Films (Jayne Cauldwell, University of Brighton, UK)
The Representation of Race in Sport Films (tbc)
Part 3: Representing Social Issues in Sport Films
British and American Sport Films: A Review of the Lack of Literature (Glen Jones, Staffordshire University, UK)
Sport Documentaries (Ian McDonald, University of Brighton, UK)
‘I Predict A Riot’: Football Hooliganism and ‘Documentary Evidence’ (Emma Poulton, Durham University, UK)
Spectator Sports and Terrorist Reports: Depicting the Munich Olympics, 1972-2005 (David S. Diffrient, University of Michigan, USA)
Biography
Emma Poulton joined the staff at Durham University in 1999 from Loughborough University where she undertook her PhD analysing the construction and representation of national identities in Euro 96. This research interest has continued and developed to include analyses of the media representation of football fans and football-related disorder. Martin Roderick spent several years at the University of Leicester before moving to Durham University in 2004, where he is a lecturer in Sociology. In 2003 he completed his PhD examining the careers of professional football. He is the author of The Work of Professional Football: A Labour of Love? (Routledge 2006). His other research interests concern the sociology of emotions and sport, and the problems of participating in sport at elite levels.
