Representations of Sports Coaches in Film

This volume brings together leading international scholars to examine ways in which representations of sports coaching in narrative and documentary cinema can shape and inform sporting instruction. The central premise is that films featuring sports coaches potentially reflect, reinforce or contest how their audiences comprehend the world of coaching. By way of a series of enlightening, original studies, this book redresses the relative neglect afforded to sports coaching in film and simultaneously highlights the immense value that research in this emerging field has for sporting performance and social justice. This book was originally published as a special issue of Sports Coaching Review.