Abstract
Preface: O. J. and the Imperative of Sports in Cultural Studies Todd Boyd Introduction: Sports and the Popular Aaron Baker Part I: Sports and the Revision of Masculinity 1. Television Sports as Mas(s)culine Cult of Distraction Ava Rose and James Friedman 2. Female Spectators and the Corbett-Fitzsimmons Fight Film Dan Streible 3. ONever Trust A SnakeO: WWF Wrestling as Masculine Melodrama Henry Jenkins Part II: Sports, Race and Representation 4. OAmericaOsO Apple Pie: Baseball, Japan-Bashing, and the Sexual Threat of Economic Miscegenation Kent Ono 5. Mike Tyson and the Perils of Discursive Constraints: Boxing, Race, and The Assumption of Guilt John Sloop 6. The Day the Niggaz Took Over: Basketball, Commodity Culture, and Black Masculinity Todd Boyd Part III: Hollywood Sports Films and Contested Identities 7. Visible Difference and Flex Appeal: The Body, Sex, Sexuality, and Race in the PUMPING IRON Films Christine Anne Holmlund 8. A Left/Right Combination: Populism and Depression Era Boxing Films Aaron Baker 9. Baseball in the Post-American Cinema, or Life in the Minor Leagues Vivian Sobchack
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