[Commlist] New book: The British Horseracing Film

New publication, /The British Horseracing Film: Representations of the 
‘Sport of Kings’ in British Cinema/. It has just ‘left the starting 
gate’ from Palgrave Macmillan:

https://www.palgrave.com/gb/book/9783030051792

About /The British Horseracing Film/:

This book constitutes the first full volume dedicated to an academic 
analysis of horseracing in British cinema. Through comprehensive 
contextual histories of film production and reception, together with 
detailed textual analysis, this book explores the aesthetic and emotive 
power of the enduringly popular horseracing genre, its 
ideologically-inflected landscape and the ways in which horse owners and 
riders, bookmakers and punters have been represented on British screen. 
The films discussed span from the 1890s to the present day and include 
silent shorts, quota quickies and big-budget biopics. A work of social 
and film history, /The British Horseracing Film/demonstrates how the 
so-called “sport of kings” functions as an accessible institutional 
structure through which to explore cinematic discussions about the 
British nation—but also, and equally, national approaches to British cinema.

'Stephen Glynn has a thoroughbred pedigree in the field of sport in 
British cinema, and /The British Horseracing Film /is an odds-on 
favourite to be another winner. Written with verve and vigour, this 
gallop through a hitherto unknown subject is also good fun to read. I 
recommend all film and turf enthusiasts to take a punt.' - James 
Chapman, Professor of Film Studies at the University of Leicester, UK, 
and editor of the /Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television/




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