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.
Boyd, Todd : University of South Carolina
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?
Summary
Out of Bounds looks at the media representation of professional sports through the lens of cultural studies.
The editors contend that the popularity of sports derives not simply from their appeal as leisure entertainment
but from their role in larger systems of class, race, gender, and masculinity. Essays in the collection challenge
the assumption of the apolitical nature of sports by examining how they contribute to the contested process of
defining social identities.
