Journal article
David Williamson's The Club: football politic, a dirty story
Metro Magazine, Vol.179, pp.100-109
2014
Abstract
Watching David Williamson's The Club (Bruce Beresford, 1980) now, as a scandal over performance-enhancing drugs threatens to destroy at least one AFL club and permanently taint the League's credibility, while in another form of football a player is bought and sold for a world record fee of almost $150 million, the indignant outrage of the film's coach and players over the $120,000 fee paid for a pot-smoking raw recruit appears quaint and comic in unintended ways. Were it ever true, it seems harder than ever now to agree with Nick Parson's assertion that 'in Australia the only sphere of endeavour that is considered morally pure is sport.
Details
- Title
- David Williamson's The Club: football politic, a dirty story
- Authors
- Ben Goldsmith (Author) - Queensland University of Technology
- Publication details
- Metro Magazine, Vol.179, pp.100-109
- Publisher
- Australian Teachers of Media (ATOM) Inc.
- Date published
- 2014
- ISSN
- 0312-2654
- Organisation Unit
- University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Creative Industries - Legacy
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99450101302621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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