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).
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Aaron Baker teaches in the Interdisciplinary Humanities program at Arizona State University. He is currently working on a book about sports in American film and television.
Todd Boyd, Assistant Professor of Critical Studies at the USC School of Cinema-Television, has published in numerous journals, and is the author of Am I Black Enough for You? (in this catalog).
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One chides the Berliners for being addicted to distraction, but this is a petit-bourgeois reproach. . . . The tension to which the working masses are subjected . . . [is] an essentially formal tension which fills their day fully without making it fulfilling. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, African American, Mike Tyson, United States, World War, Seattle Mariners, Indianapolis Star, San Francisco, Million Dollar Man, The Champ, Desiree Washington, Fallen Champ, Fay Vincent, Spirit of Youth, Alice Rix, Big Boss Man, Carson City, Sports Illustrated, Warner Brothers, Bev Francis, Garden City, Los Angeles, Pearl Harbor, Hulk Hogan, Indiana University Press New!
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One chides the Berliners for being addicted to distraction, but this is a petit-bourgeois reproach. . . . The tension to which the working masses are subjected . . . [is] an essentially formal tension which fills their day fully without making it fulfilling. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, African American, Mike Tyson, United States, World War, Seattle Mariners, Indianapolis Star, San Francisco, Million Dollar Man, The Champ, Desiree Washington, Fallen Champ, Fay Vincent, Spirit of Youth, Alice Rix, Big Boss Man, Carson City, Sports Illustrated, Warner Brothers, Bev Francis, Garden City, Los Angeles, Pearl Harbor, Hulk Hogan, Indiana University Press New!
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- Pumping Iron: The Art and Sport of Bodybuilding by Charles Gaines on 4 pages
- Make a Movie That Tells a Story on page 187, and Back Matter
- Joy of Sports by Michael Novak on page 180, and page 195
- Sports Films: A Complete Reference by Harvey Marc Zucker on page 183, and page 195
- The Melodramatic Imagination: Balzac, Henry James, Melodrama, and the Mode of Excess by Professor Peter Brooks on page 15, and page 77
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- Steel Chair to the Head: The Pleasure and Pain of Professional Wrestling by Nicholas Sammond on page 164, page 231, and Back Matter
- Am I Black Enough for You?: Popular Culture from the 'Hood and Beyond by Todd Edward Boyd in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Theatres of Human Sacrifice: From Ancient Ritual to Screen Violence (SUNY Series in Psychoanalysis and Culture) by Mark Pizzato in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Contesting Identities: Sports in American Film by Aaron Baker in Back Matter
- Fan Cultures (Sussex Studies in Culture and Communication) by Matthew Hills in Back Matter
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