Out of Bounds: Sports, Media and the Politics of Identity
Out of Bounds is a collection of essays that regards the media representation of professional sports through the lens of cultural studies. Editors Aaron Baker and Todd Boyd contend that the popularity of sports derives not simply from their appeal as leisure entertainment but from their contribution to discussion of larger issues of class, race, gender, and masculinity. Essays in the collection challenge media wisdom about the apolitical nature of sports by examining how they contribute to...
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Out of Bounds is a collection of essays that regards the media representation of professional sports through the lens of cultural studies. Editors Aaron Baker and Todd Boyd contend that the popularity of sports derives not simply from their appeal as leisure entertainment but from their contribution to discussion of larger issues of class, race, gender, and masculinity. Essays in the collection challenge media wisdom about the apolitical nature of sports by examining how they contribute to the contested process of defining social identities. Included within a broad range of works are "'Never Trust a Snake': WWF Wrestling as Masculine Melodrama," (Henry Jenkins), "Mike Tyson and the Perils of Discursive Constraints: Boxing, Race and The Assumption of Guilt" (John Sloop), and "Visible Difference and Flex Appeal: The Body, Sex, Sexuality, and Race in the Pumping Iron Films" (Christine Holmlund).
Preface: Anatomy of a Murder: O.J. and the Imperative of Sports in Cultural StudiesAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Sports and the PopularPt. 1Sports and the Revision of Masculinity1Television Sports as Mas(s)culine Cult of Distraction12Female Spectators and the Corbett-Fitzsimmons Fight Film163"Never Trust a Snake": WWF Wrestling as Masculine Melodrama48Pt. 2Sports, Race, and Representation4"America's" Apple Pie: Baseball, Japan-Bashing, and the Sexual Threat of Economic Miscegenation815Mike Tyson and the Perils of Discursive Constraints: Boxing, Race, and the Assumption of Guilt1026The Day the Niggaz Took Over: Basketball, Commodity Culture, and Black Masculinity123Pt. 3Hollywood Sports Films and Contested Identities7Visible Difference and Flex Appeal: The Body, Sex, Sexuality, and Race in the "Pumping Iron" Films1458A Left/Right Combination: Populism and Depression-Era Boxing Films1619Baseball in the Post-American Cinema, or Life in the Minor Leagues175Contributors199Index201
