Foreword / Douglas Noverr
Introduction / Ron Briley, Michael K. Schoenecke, Deborah A. Carmichael
Pt. 1. Sport as cultural production and representation
Endless Summer: Consuming waves and surfing the frontier / Joan Ormrod
"I'm Against It!": The Marx Brothers' Horse Feathers as cultural critique; or, why big-time college football gives me a haddock / Daniel A. Nathan
Bobby Jones, golf, and his instructional reels / Michael K. Schoenecke
Televised golf and the creation of narrative / Harper Cossar
What's natural about it?: A baseball movie as introduction to key concepts in cultural studies / Latham Hunter
Pt. 2. Masculinity, misogyny, and race in sports films
You throw like a girl: Sports and misogyny on the silver screen / Dayna B. Daniels
As American as ...: filling in the gaps and recovering the narratives of America's forgotten heroes / Pellom McDaniels III
Basketball's great white hope and Ronald Reagan's America: Hoosiers / Ron Briley
"Just some bum from the neighborhood": The resolution of post-civil rights tension and heavyweight public sphere discourse in Rocky / Victoria A. Elmwood
Fighting for manhood: Rocky and turn-of-the-century antimodernism / Clay Motley
Pt. 3. National identity and political confrontation in sports competition
Do you believe in miracles? whiteness, Hollywood, and a post-9/11 sports imagination / David J. Leonard
An Olympic omnibus: International competition, cooperation, and politics in visions of eight / David Scott Diffrient
Why he must run: Class, anger, and resistance in The Loneliness of the long distance runner / John Hughson
"Every nation needs a legend": The miracle of Bern and the formation of a German postwar foundational myth / Tobias Hochscherf, Christoph Laucht.
