Sports As Never Before
Isolating Celebrity Athletes in Football As Never Before, Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait, and Kobe Doin' Work
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2349253 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robert Cavanagh (0000-0002-5639-3056, Emerson College–Los Angeles, CA, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 91-105 |
| Publication date | 2019-04-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Sport and Social Issues (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0193-7235 • E-ISSN: 1552-7638 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0193723517731063 |
| OpenAlex | W2754563658 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 6 |
This article constructs a genealogy of three poetic sports documentaries, all of which use multiple cameras to isolate a star athlete for the duration of a team game. All three films are defined by their distinction from dominant forms of coverage, which allows them to foreground elements of the spectacle typically marginalized by the standard grammar and narratives of sports media. These films play on the boundary between sports coverage and documentary in order to develop a richer and more nuanced analysis of sports aesthetics
Advertising · Aesthetics · Art · Athletes · Football · Literature · Media studies · Narrative · Political science · Portrait · Sociology · Spectacle · Visual arts · History · Law · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts · Sports, Gender, and Society
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |