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Sportovní film jako médium kulturní paměti
Sports film as a medium of cultural memory

Author(s): Jan Děkanovský
Subject(s): Social history, Film / Cinema / Cinematography
Published by: Lingvokulturologické a prekladateľsko-tlmočnícke centrum excelentnosti pri Filozofickej fakulte Prešovskej university v Prešove (LPTCE)
Keywords: film;sport;society;representation;cultural memory;ideology;nationalism

Summary/Abstract: The relationship between sport and the media has undergone rapid development in recent decades. The combination of television and top sport has created a specific genre of popular culture. Sport therefore also features in the most varied of forms in the film media. This study deals with the relationship between the sub-genre of sports film and the concept of collective or cultural memory, respectively. It focuses on the factors that play crucial role in this process, as well as with the dispositive of the medium, that enables to generate, store and transmit shared contents of memory. The case study comprises an analysis of several film works of sports sub-genre with historical themes.

  • Issue Year: 9/2018
  • Issue No: 35
  • Page Range: 14-22
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Czech
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