The British Football Film by Stephen Glynn

Author:Stephen Glynn
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Cham

Highlights

Despite residual narrative machinations and/or prejudice (and the supremely antiphonal depiction in Kes ), a focus on the more ‘innocent’ terrain of junior football allowed the genre greater scope to explore the national sporting obsession’s potential positives. Alongside exemplifying football’s educational value, instilling core life skills such as teamwork and endurance, the junior game creates a safe space for light-touch investigations where football serves as a metonym for society’s national, ethnic and gender tensions.

Notes

1.Football as class warfare had featured in Wisdom’s Up in the World (John Paddy Carstairs , December 1956) where Norman (Wisdom) , window cleaner at a stately home and playing for ‘the indoor staff’, gamely (but vainly) attempts to stop ‘the outdoor staff’, led by the obnoxious young Sir Reginald (Michael Caridia), from winning a rigged match.

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