| Vocabulary: | lcgft |
| Type: | form/genre |
| Status: | approved heading [active] |
| Date Created: | 2011-05-09 00:00:00 |
| Date Modified: | 2012-05-02 09:31:29 |
Sports films
Alternate Terms
Sporting films
Broader Concepts
Sources
- Moving image genre form guide via WWW, July 19, 2007: (sports: Fictional work concentrating on how an individual athlete or team, through strength, training, agility, and-or tactics, compete in the often corrupt world of sports. Plots usually relate the victory of an underdog or the fall (and sometimes return) of the champion. Usually the world of a single sport is dramatized, such as baseball, basketball, boxing, football, horseracing, bullfighting, or automobile racing)
- Films by genre, 1993: (sports picture (sporting film, sports-themed film): Sports movies include the filming of the Olympic Games, sports biographies, and naturally, films on any sport or match that may arouse the interest of the spectator)
