Sport, Representation and Evolving Identities in Europe

Philip Dine is Senior Lecturer in French at the National University of Ireland, Galway. He has published widely on representations of the French colonial empire, including particularly decolonization, in fields ranging from children's literature to professional sport. Other published research includes a history of French rugby football, as part of a broader reflection on leisure and popular culture in France. The present volume is one of the outcomes of a thematic project on sport and identity in France and Europe for which he acted as coordinator and which was funded by the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences (2006-2009). Seán Crosson is Programme Director of the MA in Film Studies in the Huston School of Film & Digital Media at the National University of Ireland, Galway. He teaches courses in the Huston School on Irish film, documentary, world cinema, and cinema and Vietnam. He has published widely on various aspects of Irish studies, from film to literature, and his current research concerns the representation of sport in film, from the silent to the contemporary period, the subject of several recent and forthcoming publications.