Week 8 - Nationalism

Week 8 - Nationalism

Week 8 - Nationalism

Discussion Topic

As before, this week you review 2 or more movies.  

If you wrote your feedback paper about both, please consider discussing some aspects of both movies here.  If you generally only wrote about one of the films in your feedback paper, please discuss the other one here (or both).  Put title of reviewed movie in your discussion title.

1) How are sport films that feature individuals or teams representing a nation unifying?  In what ways could the film you viewed be unifying?  Would the film be as interesting to you if the individuals represented a different country?  Along with this, what foreign sport films discussed by Crosson (2013) in the National Identity chapter appealed to you, if any?

2) How are the "teams" similar and different (this includes the support team around Rocky and other team mates around Jesse Owens, and the US Hockey team, in general)?  In what way do these  team mates represent the United States, both positively and negatively?