Jake W. Dean

Jake W. Dean studies the political ecology of marine conservation, as well as inequities within sports and recreation. He holds a master of arts in Latin American Studies from the University of Arizona and will enter the doctoral program in Sociocultural Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, in the fall.

Posts by Jake W. Dean

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Two Cheers for the Hollywood Sports Movie

Part film critique and part political pondering, Grant Wiedenfeld’s Hollywood Sports Movies and the American Dream provides not just a compelling case for the importance of pop culture (and more specifically the sports film) in the imaginary of the American nation, but also of how the collective experience of watching these movies can be its own form of civic engagement.