title: Going vertical: examining the rise and impact of contemporary Russian sports cinema
abstract: This paper introduces a new research database dedicated to European Sport Cinema and identifies the increasing importance of sport cinema in the European context. It includes a case study of contemporary Russian sport cinema and identifies its role in articulating and affirming existing power structures and ideological hegemony within Russian society, as evident within <i>Going Vertical</i> and further recent Russian sport films in a particularly challenging period of national and international 
journal: Frontiers in Sports and Active Living