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Out of bounds : sports, media, and the politics of identity
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- Creator
- edited by Aaron Baker and Todd Boyd
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [1997]
- ©1997
- Physical Details
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- xviii, 206 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780253210951, 025321095X, 9780253332288, 0253332281
- OCLC
- ocm34669376
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Preface. Anatomy of a murder : O.J. and the imperative of sports in cultural studies / Todd Boyd -- Introduction. Sports and the popular / Aaron Baker -- Television sports as mas(s)culine cult of distraction / Ava Rose and James Friedman -- Female spectators and the Corbett-Fitzsimmons Fight film / Dan Streible -- "Never trust a snake" : WWF wrestling as masculine melodrama / Henry Jenkins -- "America's" apple pie : baseball, Japan-bashing, and the sexual threat of economic miscegenation / Kent A. Ono -- Mike Tyson and the perils of discursive constraints : boxing, race, and the assumption of guilt / John M. Sloop -- The day the niggaz took over : basketball, commodity culture, and Black masculinity / Todd Boyd -- Visible difference and flex appeal : the body, sex, sexuality, and race in the "Pumping Iron" films / Chris Holmlund -- A left/right combination : populism and depression-era boxing films / Aaron Baker -- Baseball in the post-American cinema, or, Life in the minor leagues / Vivian Sobchack