Seán Crosson is Leader of the Sport & Exercise Research Group, Co-Director of the MA in Sports Journalism and Communication, and Director of Graduate Research and Teaching in the Huston School of Film & Digital Media, National University of Ireland Galway.

"This book achieves what it sets out to do—help the reader consider and understand how sport can be used in film to configure and inform a variety of national cultures. In doing so, the book contributes to sociology, anthropology, media, and cultural studies and should be of interest to sports historians as well as scholars beyond the sport history field." -- Andrew Bailey, Northumbria Univerty"This is a good collection which succeeds in being appropriately scholarly, utterly readable, and attractively wide ranging." - Garry Whannel, University of Bedfordshire

• Sport, Film, and National Culture: An Introduction, Part I: Sport, Cinema, and National Culture in the USA, 1. Adapting an ‘American’ Football Biopic: Knute Rockne: All American, 2. Esther Williams, Americanness, the Aquacade and Sex: ‘A Swirl of Red, White and Blue Flags and Chesty Swimmers with Their Chins Up’, 3. Multicultural American Heroes: Reading the Recent Biopics of Jackie Robinson and Jesse Owens Through the Lens of American Civil Religion, 4. Sports Film and the Reimagining of American Popular Culture: Billie Jean and Tonya, Part II: The European Experience, 5. Sport Films and ‘Banal’ Nationalism in Interwar Belgium: Flandria Film, Mythomoteurs and the Cult of the ‘Flandriens’, 6. Sport and National Culture in Swedish Film, 7. Soccer, Film, and the Third Reich: Hunters, Cowards, and Glory, 8. Primo Carnera, Propaganda and Mussoliniʼs International Legitimisation: The Boxer who was a Passport for Fascism, 9. Football, Cinema and Spanish Nationalism: Decoding the Francoist Film Campeones (1943), 10. Cricket, Film and British National Identity: On a Sticky Wicket?, Part III: Beyond Hollywood and Europe, 11. Netball and National Identity in Aotearoa New Zealand Cinema Newsreels 1930-1959: ‘There’s a new life in the sporting world’, 12. Football, National Culture and Politics in Brazil in 1970: O ano em que meus pais saíram de férias (The year my parents went on vacation), 13. Contesting Visions of Ethiopia in Two Amharic Sports Films: Between Film Festivals and Local Commercial Cinema, 14. Reconstructing Taiwanese National Identity in the Sports Film: Small Nation, Sports, and Cultural Heterogeneity

Seán Crosson is Leader of the Sport & Exercise Research Group, Co-Director of the MA in Sports Journalism and Communication, and Director of Graduate Research and Teaching in the Huston School of Film & Digital Media, National University of Ireland Galway.

"This book achieves what it sets out to do—help the reader consider and understand how sport can be used in film to configure and inform a variety of national cultures. In doing so, the book contributes to sociology, anthropology, media, and cultural studies and should be of interest to sports historians as well as scholars beyond the sport history field." -- Andrew Bailey, Northumbria Univerty"This is a good collection which succeeds in being appropriately scholarly, utterly readable, and attractively wide ranging." - Garry Whannel, University of Bedfordshire

• Sport, Film, and National Culture: An Introduction, Part I: Sport, Cinema, and National Culture in the USA, 1. Adapting an ‘American’ Football Biopic: Knute Rockne: All American, 2. Esther Williams, Americanness, the Aquacade and Sex: ‘A Swirl of Red, White and Blue Flags and Chesty Swimmers with Their Chins Up’, 3. Multicultural American Heroes: Reading the Recent Biopics of Jackie Robinson and Jesse Owens Through the Lens of American Civil Religion, 4. Sports Film and the Reimagining of American Popular Culture: Billie Jean and Tonya, Part II: The European Experience, 5. Sport Films and ‘Banal’ Nationalism in Interwar Belgium: Flandria Film, Mythomoteurs and the Cult of the ‘Flandriens’, 6. Sport and National Culture in Swedish Film, 7. Soccer, Film, and the Third Reich: Hunters, Cowards, and Glory, 8. Primo Carnera, Propaganda and Mussoliniʼs International Legitimisation: The Boxer who was a Passport for Fascism, 9. Football, Cinema and Spanish Nationalism: Decoding the Francoist Film Campeones (1943), 10. Cricket, Film and British National Identity: On a Sticky Wicket?, Part III: Beyond Hollywood and Europe, 11. Netball and National Identity in Aotearoa New Zealand Cinema Newsreels 1930-1959: ‘There’s a new life in the sporting world’, 12. Football, National Culture and Politics in Brazil in 1970: O ano em que meus pais saíram de férias (The year my parents went on vacation), 13. Contesting Visions of Ethiopia in Two Amharic Sports Films: Between Film Festivals and Local Commercial Cinema, 14. Reconstructing Taiwanese National Identity in the Sports Film: Small Nation, Sports, and Cultural Heterogeneity