Baseball Film

A Cultural and Transmedia History

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

Av Aaron Baker

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Baseball has long been viewed as the Great American Pastime, so it is no surprise that the sport has inspired many Hollywood films and television series. But how do these works depict the game, its players, fans, and place in American society? This study offers an extensive look at nearly one hundred years of baseball-themed movies, documentaries, and TV shows. Film and sports scholar Aaron Baker examines works like A League of their Own (1992) and Sugar (2008), which dramatize the underrepresented contributions of female and immigrant players, alongside classic baseball movies like The Natural that are full of nostalgia for a time when native-born white men could use the game to achieve the American dream. He further explores how biopics have both mythologized and demystified such legendary figures as Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Jackie Robinson and Fernando Valenzuela. The Baseball Film charts the variety of ways that Hollywood presents the game as integral to American life, whether showing little league as a site of parent-child bonding or depicting fans' lifelong love affairs with their home teams. Covering everything from Bull Durham (1988) to The Bad News Bears (1976), this book offers an essential look at one of the most cinematic of all sports.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2022-01-14
Mått152 x 229 x 18 mm
Vikt3 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor208
FörlagRutgers University Press
ISBN9780813596884

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Film inom Kultur
Kulturvetenskap inom Samhalle och politik
Idrottsträning och coachning inom Sport fritid och hobby
Bollsport inom Sport fritid och hobby
Scenkonst och film inom Kultur
Medievetenskap inom Samhalle och politik
Sociologi inom Samhalle och politik

Introduction: Baseball According to Satchel Paige: "Don't look back.Something might be gaining on you." 1 Hollywood Baseball Films: Nostalgic White Masculinity or the NationalPastime? 2 The Business of Baseball3 Screening Who Gets to Play4 The Glocalized Game 5 Fanball 6 Learning the GameConclusion: The Show for the Thinking Fan and Going OnlineList of Baseball Films and Television Shows

"Aaron Baker's history of how film has represented baseball as a component of American society stands alone. Replete with exceptionally perceptive observations about dozens of baseball films, this book is a 'must' read for students of the game."— Benjamin G. Rader, author of Baseball: A History of America's Game, 4th ed."An insightful and necessary analysis of baseball as a sport and a film subgenre through a sociopolitical lens examining race, gender, sexuality, globalization, and more."— The Brooklyn Rail