Description: Sports Movies covers a broad spectrum of baseball, basketball, football, and boxing films. Describing the traditional formulas that have made these movies such crowd-pleasers, it also explores how the genre's attitudes have changed over the years, especially regarding key issues like class, race, masculinity, and women in sports.
Review Quotes: "This compact book packs a huge punch! Engaging and illustrative, Sports Movies deftly tackles the widely popular genre of sports films. Lester Friedman skillfully unpacks the history, themes, and cultural significance of the genre while attending to the consequential ways race, class, gender, and sexuality come into play on and off the field."--Samantha Noelle Sheppard "co-editor of From Madea to Media Mogul: Theorizing Tyler Perry"