Out of Bounds Sports, Media and the Politics of Identity

Name: Out of Bounds Sports, Media and the Politics of Identity
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ISBN: 9780253210951

ISBN-10: 025321095X

ISBN-13: 9780253210951

Edition: 1997

Authors: Aaron Baker, Todd Boyd, Todd Edward Boyd, Todd Edward Boyd

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List price: $22.95
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 2/22/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 232
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



Preface: Anatomy of a Murder: O.J. and the Imperative of Sports in Cultural Studies



Acknowledgments


Introduction: Sports and the Popular




Sports and the Revision of Masculinity



Television Sports as Mas(s)culine Cult of Distraction




Female Spectators and the Corbett-Fitzsimmons Fight Film




"Never Trust a Snake": WWF Wrestling as Masculine Melodrama




Sports, Race, and Representation



"America's" Apple Pie: Baseball, Japan-Bashing, and the Sexual Threat of Economic Miscegenation




Mike Tyson and the Perils of Discursive Constraints: Boxing, Race, and the Assumption of Guilt




The Day the Niggaz Took Over: Basketball, Commodity Culture, and Black Masculinity




Hollywood Sports Films and Contested Identities



Visible Difference and Flex Appeal: The Body, Sex, Sexuality, and Race in the "Pumping Iron" Films




A Left/Right Combination: Populism and Depression-Era Boxing Films




Baseball in the Post-American Cinema, or Life in the Minor Leagues



Contributors


Index