Todd Boyd
Pop culture critic focusing on film, media, music and sports
Professor of critical studies, USC School of Cinematic Arts
Katherine and Frank Price Endowed Chair for the Study of Race and Popular Culture
Contact at: (213) 740-3334 or tboyd@cinema.usc.edu
Expertise:
- African American cinema and culture
- music and pop culture
- media and society
- sports and society
- American cinema and television
- race, class and gender in American film
- blaxploitation films and 70s culture
- hip-hop culture
- Author, Young Black Rich and Famous: The Rise of the NBA, the Hip Hop Invasion and the Transformation of American Culture (2003), The New H.N.I.C: The Death of Civil Rights and the Reign of Hip Hop (2003) and Am I Black Enough for You? Popular Culture from the 'Hood and Beyond (1997)
- Editor, Basketball Jones: America above the Rim (2000) and Out of Bounds: Sports, Media and the Politics of Identity (1997)
- Co-writer and producer, The Wood (1999)
More:
For stories about Todd Boyd, see "Young, Black, Rich and Famous."
Biographical information can be found at:
http://cinema.usc.edu/faculty/boyd-todd.htm
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