Aesthetics and Politics Through the Lens of the Camera: Notes on Informative Documentary Cinema in the Early Olympic Games

EDUARDO GALAK

Conferencia; 6th International Congress of Exercise and Sport Science; 2021

This research seeks to analyse the different ways of perceiving sports based on the study of cinematographic documentary of the first Olympic Games. The aim is to explore the political discourses and aesthetic senses transmitted through images, investigating footages from the beginning of the twentieth century until Berlin 1936, when the aestheticization process became analogous to the sportivization process. From observing a set of documentary Olympics footages placed on the Olympic Studies Centre, especially those produced since Saint Louis Games in 1904, this article analyses projected significations about individual and collective body. In other words, this ‘movement-images’ –as Deleuze named– shows projected meanings about the individual and collective body.