| Description |
xviii, 206 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Anatomy of a murder : O.J. and the imperative of sports in cultural studies / Todd Boyd -- 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 -- 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 -- 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. |
| Subject |
Mass media and sports.
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Sports -- Social aspects.
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| Added Author |
Baker, Aaron.
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Boyd, Todd.
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| ISBN |
0253332281 (cl : alk. paper) |
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025321095X (pa : alk. paper) |
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