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1. Sport in Films

   Edited by Emma Poulton, Martin Roderick

   Series: Sport in the Global Society

   Sport offers everything a good story should have: heroes and villains, triumph and disaster, achievement and despair, tension and drama. Consequently, sport makes for a compelling film narrative and films, in turn, are a vivid medium for sport. Yet despite its regularity as a central theme in...

   Published November 24th 2009 by Routledge
2. Sport in Films

   Edited by Emma Poulton, Martin Roderick

   Series: Sport in the Global Society

   Sport offers everything a good story should have: heroes and villains, triumph and disaster, achievement and despair, tension and drama. Consequently, sport makes for a compelling film narrative and films, in turn, are a vivid medium for sport. Yet despite its regularity as a central theme in...

   Published July 30th 2008 by Routledge
3. The Work of Professional Football

   A Labour of Love?

   By Martin Roderick

   A long-term study providing rare insights into the precarious career and ordinary working culture of professional footballers. Away from the celebrity-obsessed media gaze, the work of a professional footballer is rarely glamorous and for most players a career in football is insecure...

   Published May 17th 2006 by Routledge
4. The Twilight Language

   By Roderick Bucknell, Martin Stuart-Fox

   First published in 1995...

   Published January 16th 1995 by Routledge