Sport and Film.

Catalog description

This course uses sport films to examine relationships of power in society and the way those relationships are contested and often reinforced. Particular attention will be paid to cultural tensions and negotiations around issues related to race, gender, class, and sexuality. This course utilizes films, with accompanying readings, to understand the institution of sport in American culture, as well to understand how sport is setting where issues of race, class, gender, religion, ability/disability, and sexuality are contested and reinforced.