Abstract
A subset of the football film genre, this chapter summarises existing psycho-sociological research but adds detailed textual and visual film analysis, notably of The Football Factory (2004). It proposes that these hooligan films exemplify an inevitable generic life-cycle, initially offering antithetical approaches, synthesising into hybrid gangster forms and finally entering a self-reflexive ‘revisionist’ phase.
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Glynn, S. (2018). Gangs. In: The British Football Film. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77727-6_10
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