Being Mala Mala: Documentary Film and the Cultural Politics Of Puerto Rican Drag and Trans Identities

This article explores the ways Latinos—as audience, market, media—reshape the boundaries of sport media coverage. Its central focus examines the ways ESPN responds to the “browning of America” and its changing demographics. To this end, the essay examines the emergence and development of ESPN Deportes, and provides a textual analysis of “One Nación” (September 2015-August 2016), a podcast hosted by Max Bretos (Cuban American) and Marly Rivera (Puerto Rican). Offering a textual and content analysis, I suggest that One Nación provides a benchmark to assess the cultural politics of diversifying sport media content, coverage, and context. Moreover, I argue that One Nación, while unable to escape the dominant features of late racial/gendered capitalism, produces a counterhegemonic discursive practice capable of challenging mediated circulations of Latino Americans.

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Materiality, mediation and affective encounters: ‘Rising Phoenix’ and the cultural representation of disability

International Review for the Sociology of Sport ◽

10.1177/10126902211032166 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 101269022110321

Author(s):

Emma Pullen

Keyword(s):

Cultural Politics ◽

Documentary Film ◽

Cultural Representation ◽

Limited Attention ◽

Sport Media ◽

Disability Narratives ◽

Modes Of Representation ◽

Relations Of Power ◽

Affective Dimensions

Paralympic and Para sport representation has provided an important cultural site from which to explore the role of popular disability media in shaping everyday disability knowledge(s) through relations of power, ideology and meaning. Yet limited attention has been afforded to the affective dimensions of Para sport media that may help extend our understanding of its performative power on audiences. In critique of the recent Netflix Paralympic documentary film, ‘Rising Phoenix’, this article affords particular attention to the production of disability affects through the cinematic entanglement of things, bodies and language that work to involve audiences on an affective, emotional and sensorial level. Drawing on Sara Ahmed's (2004) cultural politics of emotion, it is argued that the film produces an economy of disability affects that contribute to the qualitative affective qualities of the film yet operate to (re-)configure sites of disabled normativity, gendered disability relations and nourish ‘supercrip’ and ‘medico-tragedy’ disability narratives. Attention is paid to the implications of this and the role of sport documentary film more widely in generating affective modes of representation for marginalised sporting groups.

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John Dos Passos's USA and Left Documentary Film in the 1930s: The Cultural Politics of "Newsreel" and "The Camera Eye"

American Studies in Scandinavia ◽

10.22439/asca.v31i1.1107 ◽

1999 ◽

Vol 31 (1) ◽

pp. 43-67

Author(s):

Juan A. Suárez

Keyword(s):

Cultural Politics ◽

Documentary Film

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Taino revival: critical perspectives on Puerto Rican identity and cultural politics

Choice Reviews Online ◽

10.5860/choice.39-5979 ◽

2002 ◽

Vol 39 (10) ◽

pp. 39-5979-39-5979

Keyword(s):

Puerto Rican ◽

Cultural Politics ◽

Critical Perspectives

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Introduction

10.5406/illinois/9780252037641.003.0001 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Kirwin R. Shaffer

Keyword(s):

Puerto Rico ◽

Puerto Rican ◽

Cultural Politics ◽

Catholic Church ◽

Roman Catholic ◽

Roman Catholic Church ◽

Future Directions ◽

The Future

This introductory chapter positions anarchism in Puerto Rico as a unique entity in the movement's history. In Puerto Rico, anarchists expressed their concerns and visions through their own brand of cultural politics, which was directed against Puerto Rican and U.S. colonial rulers in order to promote an antiauthoritarian spirit and countercultural struggle over how the island was being run and the future directions that it should pursue. Alongside this was a consistent anticlericalism against one of the perceived central pillars of cultural authoritarianism in Puerto Rico dating to the days of Spanish rule: the Roman Catholic Church. Moreover, while cultural politics reflected one way that anarchists engaged in debates over Puerto Rico-specific issues, many of these cultural debates were actually linked transnationally.

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