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Baker Aaron |
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The Baseball Film : A Cultural and Transmedia History / / Aaron Baker |
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New Brunswick, NJ : , : Rutgers University Press, , [2022] |
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1 online resource (219 pages) |
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Baseball - Social aspects - United States |
Baseball films - United States - History and criticism |
Baseball in motion pictures |
National characteristics, American, in motion pictures |
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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 |
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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 |
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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. |
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UNINA9910799228003321 |
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Thayer Johnathan |
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Citizenship, Subversion, and Surveillance in U.S. Ports : Sailors Ashore / / by Johnathan Thayer |
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Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2023 |
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[1st ed. 2023.] |
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1 online resource (198 pages) |
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Global Studies in Social and Cultural Maritime History |
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United States - History |
Cities and towns - History |
Labor |
History |
US History |
Urban History |
Labor History |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Introduction: Sailors Ashore -- Chapter 1. Sailors’ Wardship, Maritime Ministry, and the Contest for New York City’s Sailortown, 1843-1915 -- Chapter 2. Merchant Seamen and the Parameters of Involuntary Servitude: The Arago Deserters and the United States Supreme Court, 1895-1897 -- Chapter 3. “Pandemonium on the Quay”: The Titanic Disaster, the Olympic Mutiny, and the 1912 Transport Workers’ Federation Strike -- Chapter 4. The 1915 Seamen’s Act: Maritime Labor |
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and Progressive Era Maritime Reform -- Chapter 5. Deserters, Stowaways, and Mala Fide Sailors: Merchant Seamen and the Shaping of U.S. Immigration Policy, 1917-1936 -- Chapter 6. The “Million-Dollar Home for Sailors,” Industrial Maritime Unionism, and Sailors’ Agency in New York City’s Sailortown, 1930-1932 -- Chapter 7. Conclusion: Currents, Past and Future. |
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This book argues first, that the forces of industrialization that transformed ship technology simultaneously transformed the working-class lives of merchant seamen, intensifying class conflict and producing collective networks of subversion and resistance within the urban borderland spaces of sailortowns in which sailors fought to maintain control over their mobility, agency, and rights. Second, that given their social, cultural, economic, geographic, and legal marginalization, merchant seamen have occupied essential roles at the parameters of US urban, legal, labor, immigration, and wartime history. Third, that the constellation of these histories, embedded in the encounters and negotiations that merchant seamen provoked along the nation’s coastlines and sailortowns, collectively represents a unique and essential perspective on the history of US citizenship. . |
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