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.
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