This volume takes a multidisciplinary approach to examining sports in American cinema of the past quarter century. Eleven scholarly essays consider sport films ranging from Hollywood
blockbusters such as Seabiscuit to independent documentaries. A number of critical theories--feminist, poststructural, psychoanalytic, postcolonial, and critical race--are employed in the
analysis of key themes of race, gender, class, (trans)nationalism, and collective memory. The editors are affiliated with Washington State University's Department of Comparative Ethnic Studies.
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