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Record Nr.

UNINA9910789395403321

Autore

Vogan Travis

Titolo

Keepers of the flame : NFL Films and the rise of sports media / / Travis Vogan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Urbana, Illinois : , : University of Illinois Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-252-09627-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (257 p.)

Disciplina

796.332/6406

Soggetti

Football - Social aspects - United States

Television broadcasting of sports - United States - History

Mass media and sports - United States - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes bibliographical references (pages [217]-231) and index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Cover""; ""Title""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction. NFL Films and Pro Football""; ""Chapter 1. Creating and Sustaining America's Game""; ""Chapter 2. More Movies than News""; ""Chapter 3. The NFL's Smithsonian""; ""Chapter 4. The Shakespeares of Sports Films""; ""Chapter 5. Keeping the Flame in the Broadcast Era""; ""Chapter 6. Cable, NFL, Media, and NFL Films' Dinosaur Television""; ""Conclusion. The Persistence and Obsolescence of NFL Films""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""

Sommario/riassunto

NFL Films changed the way Americans view football. This work traces the subsidiary's development from a small independent film production company to the marketing machine that 'Sports Illustrated' named 'perhaps the most effective propaganda organ in the history of corporate America.' Drawing on research at the NFL Films Archive and the Pro Football Hall of Fame and interviews with media pioneer Steve Sabol and others, Travis Vogan shows how NFL Films has constructed a consistent, romanticized, and remarkably visible mythology for the National Football League.