Introduction: 'History really is gone' -- Towards Rollerball -- Making Rollerball -- 'This was never meant to be a game': Rollerball's reception then and now -- Appendix: an interview with Rollerball director, Norman Jewison -- Footnotes -- Bibliography.
Summary
Rollerball, Norman Jewison's 1975 vision of a future dominated by anonymous corporations in which all individual effort is subsumed into a horrifically violent sport, remains critically overlooked. Andrew Nette examines Rollerball's making and reception to show how it anticipates numerous contemporary concerns.
