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Sports & Politics in the U.S.

Monday, April 8, 2019 to Friday, April 12, 2019

Theme week organized by

Dafna KaufmanGeorgia State University

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

By Brett Siegel

Monday, April 8, 2019

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Defamiliarizing Concussions

By Nathan Kalman-Lamb

Tuesday, April 9, 2019

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

Sports, Politics, and the #MeToo Movement

By Kathleen Bachynski

Friday, April 12, 2019

Contributors

Brett Siegel

Doctoral Student & Assistant InstructorThe University of Texas at Austin

Nathan Kalman-Lamb

Lecturing FellowDuke University

Dafna Kaufman

Student MA Film Studies Georgia State University

Guy Harrison

Assistant Professor, Telecommunication StudiesYoungstown State University

Recent comments

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...