Hollywood’s Dirtiest Secret

Inhospitable World

<div class="tb f5">Brian R. Jacobson, assistant professor of cinema studies and history at the University of
Toronto, is author of Studios Before the System (Columbia University Press, 2015) and is currently writing a book about energy’s visual culture.</div>

Brian R. Jacobson

Hollywood in Flames

"There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education." — Will Rogers

Film

Yago Colás teaches and writes about sports, culture, and society in the English Department at Oberlin College, where he also volunteers as assistant coach for the men’s varsity basketball team. He maintains the blog&nbsp;<a href="http://yagocolas.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://yagocolas.com/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1541019685943000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGo0QDw7wqRu57jNauGn3gVQO3cHQ">Between the Lines</a>, has appeared on NPR, Slate, Politico&nbsp;and <a href="http://espn.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://ESPN.com&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1541019685943000&amp;usg=AFQjCNF-uYklPjwQ_sKeT8yrrc5u6daNSw">ESPN.com</a>&nbsp;and is the author of Ball Don’t Lie! Myth, Genealogy, and Invention in the Cultures of Basketball&nbsp;(Temple University Press, 2016) and is currently writing Numbers Don’t Lie! Counting and What Counts in Basketball&nbsp;(forthcoming, University of Nebraska Press, 2020).

Yago Colás

<div>Theresa Runstedtler is Associate Professor of History at American University. She is the author of Jack Johnson, Rebel Sojourner: Boxing in the Shadow of the Global Color Line (University of California Press, 2012), a&nbsp;book that examines the first African American world heavyweight champion’s legacy as a black sporting hero and anticolonial icon in the early 1900s. Her second book project in progress explores questions of blackness, masculinity, labor, and criminalization through the lens of professional basketball's so-called Dark Ages of the 1970s. In another life, she was a member of the Toronto Raptors Dance Pak in the late 1990s.</div>
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Theresa Runstedtler

The LARB Ball NBA Roundtable

LARB Ball

"I see great things in baseball." — Walt Whitman

Sports

Sarah J. Jackson is an Associate Professor of Communication Studies at Northeastern University, a Fellow at the Shorenstein Center for Media, Politics, and Public Policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School, and a 2019 New America National Fellow. An expert in how communication constructs identity and shapes social change in U.S. culture, her work considers how media, journalism and technology are used by and represent Black and feminist activists. Her first book,&nbsp;Black Celebrity, Racial Politics, and the Press&nbsp;(Routledge, 2014) examines the relationship between Black celebrity activism, journalism and American politics. Her&nbsp;forthcoming co-authored book,&nbsp;Hashtag&nbsp;Activism: Race&nbsp;and Gender in America’s Networked Counterpublics,&nbsp;focuses on the use of Twitter in contemporary racial justice and gender justice movements.

Sarah J. Jackson

Kathleen Bachynski is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Medicine at NYU Langone Health, where she researches and teaches on sports safety,&nbsp;ethics, and the&nbsp;history of medicine.&nbsp;She holds an MPH in epidemiology from the University of Michigan and a PhD in Sociomedical Sciences from Columbia University. She has authored articles&nbsp;in the&nbsp;New England Journal of Medicine, Injury Prevention, American Journal of Public Health, and the&nbsp;Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics.&nbsp;She is currently completing a book for the University of North Carolina Press on the history of debates over the safety of youth tackle football.&nbsp;

Kathleen Bachynski

Travis Vogan is associate professor of in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication and the Department of American Studies at the University of Iowa. &nbsp;He is the author of&nbsp;Keepers of the Flame: NFL Films and the Rise of Sports Media&nbsp;(University of Illinois Press),ESPN: The Making of a Sports Media Empire&nbsp;(University of Illinois Press), and&nbsp;ABC Sports: The Rise and Fall of Network Sports Television&nbsp;(University of California Press).

Travis Vogan

The LARB Ball NFL Roundtable

Workers of the World Cup: On Qatar 2022 and the Future of FIFA

Big Oil’s High-Risk Love Affair with Film

"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein

Science &amp; Technology

Brian R. Jacobson, assistant professor of cinema studies and history at the University of
Toronto, is author of Studios Before the System (Columbia University Press, 2015) and is currently writing a book about energy’s visual culture.