Stars, Stripes and Diamonds American Culture and the Baseball Film

Name: Stars, Stripes and Diamonds American Culture and the Baseball Film
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ISBN: 9780786425181

ISBN-10: 0786425180

ISBN-13: 9780786425181

Edition: 2006

Authors: Marshall G. Most, Robert Rudd

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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…

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List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Publication date: 5/2/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 200
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.40" tall
Weight: 0.594

Marshall G. Most works in the Department of Communication at Boise State University in Boise, Idaho.

Robert Rudd works in the Department of Communication at Boise State University in Boise, Idaho.



Acknowledgments


Preface



America's Game



Baseball on Film: 1898-2005



The Community of Baseball



Booze, Broads, and Baseball



For Love of the Game



Don't Bet on It



I Hate This #*%# Song



The Back of the Dugout



Girls Don't Play Baseball



The America That Was Meant to Be


Filmography


Works Cited


Index