Dr. Todd Boyd CTCS 469: Sports, Media and Culture Spring 2011(Wednesdays 2 – 5:50 pm) SCA 108

Film and Reading List

Screening Schedule: January 12 Screening: O.J.: A Study in Black and White (HBO, 2002) and June 17, 1994 (, 2009)

January 19 Screening: Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson Part 1 (Ken Burns, 2004)

January 26 Screenings: Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson Part 2 (Ken Burns, 2004)

February 2 Screening: When We Were Kings (Leon Gast, 1996)

February 9 Screening: Thrilla in Manila (John Dower, 2009)

February 16 Screening: Raging Bull (, 1980)

February 23 Screening: Sonny Liston: The Mysterious Life and Death of a Champion (Jeff Lieberman, 1995) and and Tyson (James Toback, 2009)

March 2 Screening: Screening: Any Given Sunday (Oliver Stone, 1999)

March 9: MIDTERM EXAM

March 16: SPRING BREAK

March 23 Screening: The U (Billy Corben, 2009)

March 30 Screening: Magic/Bird: A Courtship of Rivals (Ezra Edelman, 2009)

April 6 Screenings: He Got Game (, 1998)

April 13 Screening: More Than a Game (Kristopher Belman, 2008)

April 20 Screening: The Two Escobars (Jeff and Michael Zimblast, 2010)

1 April 27 Screening: Unmatched (Lisa Lax and Nancy Stern, 2010)

Required Texts: Araton, Harvey. Crashing the Borders: How Basketball Won the World and Lost Its Soul at Home. Simon & Schuster, 2008.

Boyd, Todd. Young, Black, Rich, and Famous: The Rise of the NBA, The Hip-Hop Invasion, and the Transformation of American Culture. Bison Books, 2008.

Foer, Franklin. How Soccer Explains the World. Harper Perennial, 2005.

LaFeber, Walter. Michael Jordan and the New Global Capitalism, W.W. Norton, 2002.

Remnick, David. King of the World. Vintage Press, 1999.

Rhoden, William. 40 Million Dollar Slaves. Crown Books, 2006.

Ward, Geoffrey C., Unforgivable Blackness. Vintage Press. 2006.

Zirin, Dave. What's My Name Fool, Haymarket Books, 2005

Course Reader (CR) available at Magic Machine, 3309 South Hoover, University Village

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