Abstract

MELO, Victor Andrade de. The sport in the Portugal´s cinema. Rev. Port. Cien. Desp. [online]. 2008, vol.8, n.1, pp.157-165. ISSN 1645-0523.

This article has for objective to present a panorama of the presence of the sport in the history of the Portuguese cinema. It is an important research for its potential in contributing to extend our understanding of the development of the sport in Portugal, since the dialogue with an important typical language of modernity, an expression of the social-cultural formation of the country: the cinema. For reach of the objective it had been analyzed synopses/techniques dates of 703 films produced between 1896 and 2006. It was possible to found 32 films in which the sport was represented, divided in: 12 where it is the central subject; 7 where it occupies place of importance, despite it is not the central subject; e 13 where only it is cited.

Keywords : sport history; sport sociology; cinema.

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