LEADER 03726nam 2200565 450 001 9910824963903321 005 20230415172627.0 010 $a0-8135-9692-0 024 7 $a10.36019/9780813596921 035 $a(CKB)4940000000615556 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6798553 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6798553 035 $a(OCoLC)1285167397 035 $a(DE-B1597)617123 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780813596921 035 $a(EXLCZ)994940000000615556 100 $a20230415d2022 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Baseball Film $eA Cultural and Transmedia History /$fAaron Baker 210 1$aNew Brunswick, NJ :$cRutgers University Press,$d[2022] 210 4$dİ2022 215 $a1 online resource (219 pages) 225 1 $aScreening Sports 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a0-8135-9689-0 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tIntroduction: The Baseball Film?Nostalgia and Innovation -- $t1. Hollywood Baseball Films: Nostalgic White Masculinity or the National Pastime? -- $t2. The Business of Baseball -- $t3. Screening Who Gets to Play -- $t4. The Glocalized Game -- $t5. Fanball -- $t6. Learning the Game -- $tConclusion: The Show for the Thinking Fan and Going Online -- $tList of Baseball Films and Television Shows -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tNotes -- $tIndex -- $tAbout the Author 330 $aBaseball has long been viewed as the Great American Pastime, so it is no surprise that the sport has inspired many Hollywood films and television series. But how do these works depict the game, its players, fans, and place in American society? This study offers an extensive look at nearly one hundred years of baseball-themed movies, documentaries, and TV shows. Film and sports scholar Aaron Baker examines works like A League of their Own (1992) and Sugar (2008), which dramatize the underrepresented contributions of female and immigrant players, alongside classic baseball movies like The Natural that are full of nostalgia for a time when native-born white men could use the game to achieve the American dream. He further explores how biopics have both mythologized and demystified such legendary figures as Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Jackie Robinson and Fernando Valenzuela. The Baseball Film charts the variety of ways that Hollywood presents the game as integral to American life, whether showing little league as a site of parent-child bonding or depicting fans? lifelong love affairs with their home teams. Covering everything from Bull Durham (1988) to The Bad News Bears (1976), this book offers an essential look at one of the most cinematic of all sports. 410 0$aScreening sports. 606 $aBaseball$xSocial aspects$zUnited States 606 $aBaseball films$zUnited States$xHistory and criticism 606 $aBaseball in motion pictures 606 $aNational characteristics, American, in motion pictures 610 $aAmerica, film, sports, recreation, media studies, communications, baseball, television, game, upward mobility, success, American Dream, 1920s, masculinity, white masculinity, diversity, media representation, adolescence, childhood, pastime. 615 0$aBaseball$xSocial aspects 615 0$aBaseball films$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aBaseball in motion pictures. 615 0$aNational characteristics, American, in motion pictures. 676 $a791.436579 700 $aBaker$b Aaron$01169755 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910824963903321 996 $aThe Baseball Film$94046588 997 $aUNINA