The Cinema Of Baseball
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The Cinema Of Baseball
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Author : Gary E. Dickerson
language : en
Publisher: Meckler Books
Release Date : 1991
The Cinema Of Baseball written by Gary E. Dickerson and has been published by Meckler Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Performing Arts categories.
The Baseball Film
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Author : Aaron Baker
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 2022-01-14
The Baseball Film written by Aaron Baker and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-01-14 with Performing Arts categories.
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.
Baseball Goes To The Movies
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Author : Ron Backer
language : en
Publisher: Applause Books
Release Date : 2017
Baseball Goes To The Movies written by Ron Backer and has been published by Applause Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Performing Arts categories.
(Applause Books). Lights! Camera! Play ball! From the early silent era to the present day, baseball movies have always been a staple of the cinema, from coming-of-age childhood classics to MLB-level epics. Baseball Goes to the Movies chronicles America's fascination with the sport from the beginning of the sound era to the current decade, quite literally covering the bases on all of the great and several of the not-so-great baseball flicks. From Field of Dreams ("If you build it, he will come..."), The Pride of the Yankees ("But today today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth"), and A League of Their Own ("There's no crying in baseball!") to an Academy Award nominee for Best Picture ( Moneyball ) and a sports flick that many believe is the worst ever made ( The Babe Ruth Story ), Backer always swings for the fences in his all-inclusive analysis of this underappreciated genre. Striving to emphasize the baseball aspects of every film featured, the book balances its critical discussions with information about players, teams, ballparks, interesting plays, statistics, baseball rules, and the legend and lore of the summer game (all without a DH!). Baseball Goes to the Movies is equally at home in the hands of silver screen fiends, sports fanatics, and frightened parents looking for a soft lob at the beginning of Little League.
Baseball The Movie
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Author : Noah Gittell
language : en
Publisher: Triumph Books
Release Date : 2024-05-14
Baseball The Movie written by Noah Gittell and has been published by Triumph Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-05-14 with Sports & Recreation categories.
Featuring Field of Dreams, The Bad News Bears, A League of Their Own, and more: a probing and entertaining work at the intersection of pop culture and sports Baseball has always been a symbol as much as a sport. With a blend of individual confrontation and team play, a luxurious pace, and an immaculate urban parkland setting, it offers a sunny rendering of the American Dream, both the hard work that underpins it and the rewards it promises. Film, America's other national pastime, which magnifies and mythologizes all it touches, has long been the ideal medium to canonize this aspirational idea. Baseball: The Movie is the first definitive history of this film genre that was born in 1915 and remains artistically and culturally vital more than a century later. Writer and critic Noah Gittell sheds light on well-known classics and overlooked gems, exploring how baseball cinema creates a stage upon which the American ideal is born, performed, and repeatedly redefined. Traversing history and mythmaking, cynicism and nostalgia, this thoroughly researched book takes readers on a multifaceted tour of baseball on film.
Stars Stripes And Diamonds
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Author : Marshall G. Most
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2018-04-27
Stars Stripes And Diamonds written by Marshall G. Most and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-27 with Sports & Recreation categories.
Since the Progressive Era, baseball has been promoted as an institution encapsulating the best of American values and capable of bridging the chasms of twentieth century American culture—urban versus rural, industry versus agriculture, individual versus community, immigrant versus native, white versus color. Among the more enthusiastic of the game’s proponents have been American filmmakers, and baseball films present perhaps the purest depiction of baseball’s vision of an idealized America. This critical study treats baseball cinema as a film genre and explores the functions of baseball ideology as it is represented in that genre. It focuses on how Hollywood’s presentation of baseball has served not only to promote dominant values, but also to bridge cultural conflicts. Commentary on 85 films deals with issues of race, community, gambling, players, women, and owners. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.
Mr Deeds Goes To Yankee Stadium
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Author : Wes D. Gehring
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2010-07-27
Mr Deeds Goes To Yankee Stadium written by Wes D. Gehring and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-07-27 with Sports & Recreation categories.
Celebrated film director Frank Capra was a central architect of the "feel good" movie genre now known as populism, which celebrates people, families, second chances, and other traditional American icons such as small town or pastoral life and baseball. Capra developed his own brand of populism by interweaving traditional values of the genre with a younger, more vulnerable hero starting with Mr. Deeds Goes to Town in 1936. The result, Capraesque populism, has had a significant influence on American pop culture in general and forms a small but important subgenre of baseball movie. This book examines eight of these Capraesque baseball films, starting with the all-important Pride of the Yankees (1942), which one admiring critic has called "Mr. Deeds Goes to Yankee Stadium." An introduction provides an overview of baseball and populism. Individual chapters are devoted to the populist legacy from Will Rogers (Capra's mentor) to Capra, The Pride of the Yankees, The Stratton Story, Angels in the Outfield, The Natural, Bull Durham, Field of Dreams, Frequency and The Rookie.
The Church Of Baseball
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Author : Ron Shelton
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2022-07-05
The Church Of Baseball written by Ron Shelton and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-07-05 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
From the award-winning screenwriter and director of cult classic Bull Durham, the extremely entertaining behind-the-scenes story of the making of the film, and an insightful primer on the art and business of moviemaking. “This book tells you how to make a movie—the whole nine innings of it—out of nothing but sheer will.” —Tony Gilroy, writer/director of Michael Clayton and The Bourne Legacy “The only church that truly feeds the soul, day in, day out, is the church of baseball.” —Annie in Bull Durham Bull Durham, the breakthrough 1988 film about a minor league baseball team, is widely revered as the best sports movie of all time. But back in 1987, Ron Shelton was a first-time director and no one was willing to finance a movie about baseball—especially a story set in the minors. The jury was still out on Kevin Costner’s leading-man potential, while Susan Sarandon was already a has-been. There were doubts. But something miraculous happened, and The Church of Baseball attempts to capture why. From organizing a baseball camp for the actors and rewriting key scenes while on set, to dealing with a short production schedule and overcoming the challenge of filming the sport, Shelton brings to life the making of this beloved American movie. Shelton explains the rarely revealed ins and outs of moviemaking, from a film’s inception and financing, screenwriting, casting, the nuts and bolts of directing, the postproduction process, and even through its release. But this is also a book about baseball and its singular romance in the world of sports. Shelton spent six years in the minor leagues before making this film, and his experiences resonate throughout this book. Full of wry humor and insight, The Church of Baseball tells the remarkable story behind an iconic film.
Diamonds In The Dark
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Author : Howard Good
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997
Diamonds In The Dark written by Howard Good and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Performing Arts categories.
Book on baseball films in American cinema
Sports Movies
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Author : Lester D. Friedman
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 2020-03-13
Sports Movies written by Lester D. Friedman and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-13 with Performing Arts categories.
Baseball movies -- Basketball movies -- Football movies -- Boxing movies -- The sporting life.
Great Baseball Films
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Author : Rob Edelman
language : en
Publisher: Carol Publishing Corporation
Release Date : 1994
Great Baseball Films written by Rob Edelman and has been published by Carol Publishing Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Performing Arts categories.