ABSTRACT
This chapter shows how a number of the white masculinities which appear in new millennium sport films display and reproduce these four representational strategies even if in slightly varied ways. On the link between sport films and masculinity, Aaron Baker writes, 'because they so often feature male athletes, sports films provide a useful site for the analysis of dominant ideas of masculinity, yet they also show how it has been refigured over time in response to changes in American society'. Consequently, in new millennium America a conservative remasculinization project was revitalized mainly through the celebration of a new figure in American culture – a conventionally masculine, yet unprivileged, white everyman figure. The effects of the new millennium remasculinization projects is to re-stabilize, reassert and reproduce the social, cultural, economic, political and psychic privileges of being white, straight and male in the American social formation at a time when they have become fragile and destabilized.
