My heartfelt thanks to the editors for inviting me participate in this special issue. I am humbled by invitation and doubly pleased share my thoughts. was given freedom respond via interview or written text; latter suits best. have a tone hoping convey way an may occurred as consider framing of call few queries posed conversation. US-based scholar, thus while extending conversation globally, re...

Slap Shot’s Lily Braden is the origin of what I term “willful wife.” The wife” a unique character hockey film genre as she appears in nearly every popular post-Slap Shot but incredibly rare other sports films. define willful wife girlfriend/wife an athlete, literature or film, who unhappy with her partner’s devotion to sport, and so demands that he be more attentive boyfriend/husband and/or fat...