1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910795382603321

Autore

Baker Aaron

Titolo

The Baseball Film : A Cultural and Transmedia History / / Aaron Baker

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Brunswick, NJ : , : Rutgers University Press, , [2022]

©2022

ISBN

0-8135-9692-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (219 pages)

Collana

Screening Sports

Disciplina

791.436579

Soggetti

Baseball - Social aspects - United States

Baseball films - United States - History and criticism

Baseball in motion pictures

National characteristics, American, in motion pictures

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: The Baseball Film—Nostalgia and Innovation -- 1. Hollywood Baseball Films: Nostalgic White Masculinity or the National Pastime? -- 2. The Business of Baseball -- 3. Screening Who Gets to Play -- 4. The Glocalized Game -- 5. Fanball -- 6. Learning the Game -- Conclusion: The Show for the Thinking Fan and Going Online -- List of Baseball Films and Television Shows -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

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.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA990005786190403321

Titolo

La Calabria / a cura di Piero Bevilacqua e Augusto Placanica

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Torino, : Einaudi, 1985

ISBN

88-06-58040-X

Descrizione fisica

XV, 960 p., [16] c. di tav. ; 21 cm

Disciplina

945.78

Locazione

FGBC

DARPU

DECSE

FSPBC

FLFBC

DINST

DECGE

BFS

DECTS

Collocazione

XXI COLL. 162 (3)

B 158 CAN

SE038.05.06-

COLLEZ. 946 (1)

945 EIN 02 (03)

945 EIN 02 (03) bis

01 C VB 4

003.010.STO.06

945.78 EIN 1

N03.160/10

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia