“Employing a close textual analysis of hockey film scripts and a wide range of scholarly sources that include media, film, and literature studies, The Cinema of Hockey offers itself as the first cultural analysis and history of hockey on film.... [It presents] a well-structured analysis with new research on hockey cinema and the many interpretive themes these films present to viewers.”—Sport in American History; “the first comprehensive study”—Nordic Sport Science Forum; “Cermak has outdone herself in curating quite a collection of films and telefilms depicting all representations of hockey...Cermak’s efforts in examining hockey through film as a vehicle for symbolic representations showcase the book’s strength”—Journal of the American Studies Association of Texas; “well written, heavily researched...recommended...Cermark displays a knowledge of the scholarship on a variety of film genres from family films to road movies, in addition to a remarkable awareness of the literature on Canadian media”—The Journal of American Culture; “[A] major contribution.”—Brian Kennedy, Pasadena City College, author of Facing Wayne Gretzky.
