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Images collected from The Guardian and The Nation.

Sports & Politics in the U.S.

Monday, April 8, 2019 to Friday, April 12, 2019
Theme week organized by
Dafna KaufmanGeorgia State University
  • sports
  • politics
  • nationalism

"Brand Ambassadors": Cheerleaders, Gendered Labor, and Institutional Crisis in the NFL

By Brett Siegel
Monday, April 8, 2019
1 comment
Still from a football game where a concussion type injury is occured

Defamiliarizing Concussions

By Nathan Kalman-Lamb
Tuesday, April 9, 2019
Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf with Colin Kaepernick

Invisible Man: Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf's Forgotten Protest

By Dafna Kaufman
Wednesday, April 10, 2019

How The Treatment of Women Sportscasters Foretold The Rise of Trumpism

By Guy Harrison
Thursday, April 11, 2019
Dr. Christine Blasey Ford Sports Illustrated

Sports, Politics, and the #MeToo Movement

By Kathleen Bachynski
Friday, April 12, 2019
Contributors
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Brett Siegel

Doctoral Student & Assistant InstructorThe University of Texas at Austin
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb

Lecturing FellowDuke University
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Dafna Kaufman

Student MA Film Studies Georgia State University
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Guy Harrison

Assistant Professor, Telecommunication StudiesYoungstown State University
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  • Re: Ain't No Passing Craze: Racialized Representations in Disney’s Animated Films
    Thank you!
    By Rebecca James
    6 hours 48 min ago

    Thank you for your comment, I have never thought about those characters in that way. I have never thought to examine the use of varying working-class accents, nicknames, hobbies, in characterizations - which is such an interesting and unique take! I...

  • Re: Ain't No Passing Craze: Racialized Representations in Disney’s Animated Films
    Yes and!
    By Carolyn Elerding
    Friday, December 6, 2019 - 15:11

    Rebecca (if I may), I'm very glad to have read your analysis. It's not easy to pack such a comprehensive critique into such a small space! I would be interested in your thoughts on how Gillota's work on essentialism might figure into discussion of...

  • Re: An IMR Exclusive Interview with Disney Producer Brigham Taylor
    No additional insight, but I
    By Sky LaRell Anderson
    Thursday, December 5, 2019 - 20:54

    No additional insight, but I believe the response speaks to the aesthetic sensibilities of a producer (which I believe has a big influence over the production). For instance, simply look at the face animation on the animals in the Lion King remake...

  • Re: The Jungle Book: Evolving Representations of Masculinity
    A close relationship between production and theory
    By Carolyn Elerding
    Thursday, December 5, 2019 - 17:15

    Hannah (if I may), thank you for sharing your thought-provoking perspective. As you might imagine, if you've seen my post on the Dalmatians films, I am very supportive of your interest in comparative historicization of the original and remake. I...

  • Re: An IMR Exclusive Interview with Disney Producer Brigham Taylor
    Abstractions and Divergences
    By Jannik Müller
    Wednesday, December 4, 2019 - 10:48

    Thank you for this very interesting interview. Fascinating that Taylor mentions aesthetic abstraction and narrative divergence from the original stories, both of which the Lion King-remake does not do. I am wondering whether Taylor's last answer...

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