The Editors: C. Richard King, Associate Professor of Comparative Ethnic Studies at Washington State University, has written extensively on the changing contours of race in post-civil rights America, the colonial legacies and postcolonial predicaments of American culture, and struggles over Indianness in public culture. He received his Ph.D. in cultural anthropology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is also the author/editor of several books, including Team Spirits: The Native American Mascot Controversy (a CHOICE 2001 Outstanding Academic Title) and Postcolonial America.David J. Leonard is Assistant Professor in the Department of Comparative Ethnic Studies at Washington State University. He received his Ph.D. in ethnic studies from the University of California at Berkeley. He has written on sports, video games, film, and social movements, appearing in both popular and academic mediums.

• Contents: David J. Leonard/C. Richard King: Screening the Social: An Introduction to Sport Cinema – W.R. Marshall/Julio Rodriguez: Floating: Surfing and Signification – Michael D. Giardina: Bending it like Beckham in the Global Popular: Stylish Hybridity, Performativity, and the Politics of Representation – Grant Farred: The Double Temporality of Lagaan: Cultural Struggle and Postcolonialism – C. Keith Harrison: From Boyz (N the Hood) to Men: Cultural Perceptions of AfricanAmerican «Ballers» and «Scholar Ballers» in Higher Education – Jared Sexton: The Field of Fantasy and the Court of Appeal: On Friday Night Lights and Coach Carter – C. Richard King: Vanishing Points: Reframing Indianness in Recent Sport Documentaries – Kyle W. Kusz: Dogtown and Z-Boys: White Particularity and the New, New Cultural Racism – David J. Leonard: «Is This Heaven?» White Sporting Masculinities and the Hollywood Imagination – Dave Zirin: Crass Slipper Fits Cinderella Man – Holly Kruse: Media, Marketing, and Memory: Sport Promotion and Seabiscuit – C. Richard King/David J. Leonard: Epilogue: Why Sports Films Matter; Or, Refusing a Happy Ending – David J. Leonard/C. Richard King: Appendix. Teaching Sport Film: Pedagogic Resources.

«‘Visual Economies of/in Motion: Sport and Film’ engages readers with a timely, well-integrated set of essays which reveal how sport and film, two ubiquitous forms of popular culture, conspire to articulate ideologies of race, gender, and nation, across time and space. As a sophisticated and imaginative collection that expands our understanding of film and makes transparent the relationship of this powerful medium to the spaces of everyday life, this book should emerge as the definitive text on sport and visual culture.» (Charles Fruehling Springwood, Illinois Wesleyan University)«‘Visual Economies of/in Motion’ drops it like it’s hot on the complex and compelling relationship between cinema, sports, and culture. This book adds much needed commentary to the ever expanding conversation which recognizes that sports is indeed a central component in studying popular culture.» (Dr. Todd Boyd, The Katherine and Frank Price Endowed Chair for the Study of Race and Popular Culture, USC School of Cinema-TV and author of ‘Young Black Rich and Famous’)