Sports & Society Reading Group: Samantha Sheppard discusses "The Basketball Film: A Cultural and Transmedia History"

We’ll talk all things hoops and highlights, films and fast breaks, with a chapter excerpt from Dr. Sheppard’s book provided in advance as well as (hopefully) a link to screen a film considered therein. It will be a slam dunk!

Dr. Samantha N. Sheppard is Professor of Cinema and Media Studies and Chair in the Department of Performing and Media Arts at Cornell University.  She is author of The Basketball Film: A Cultural and Transmedia History (Rutgers University Press, 2026) and Sporting Blackness: Race, Embodiment, and Critical Muscle Memory on Screen (University of California Press, 2020). 

She is co-editor of Women, Sisters, Friends: The Selected Plays and Screenplays of Kathleen Collins (University of California Press, forthcoming 2027) with Alix Beeston and Hayley O'Malley, Sporting Realities: Critical Readings on the Sports Documentary (University of Nebraska Press, 2020) with Travis Vogan, and From Madea to Media Mogul: Theorizing Tyler Perry (University Press of Mississippi, 2016) with TreaAndrea Russworm and Karen Bowdre.

Please contact Noah Cohan (ncohan@wustl.edu) for more information and a copy of the excerpted reading materials.