Baseball : the movie
(Book)
Author
Published
Chicago, Illinois : Triumph Books, [2024].
ISBN
9781637272640, 1637272642
Physical Desc
xxiii, 279 pages ; 24 cm
Status
Copies
Location | Call Number | Status |
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Somerville East - New Books | 791.436579 GI | Checked Out |
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Published
Chicago, Illinois : Triumph Books, [2024].
Format
Book
Language
English
ISBN
9781637272640, 1637272642
Notes
Description
"Featuring Field of Dreams, The Bad News Bears, A League of Their Own, and more: a probing and entertaining work at the intersection of pop culture and sports Baseball has always been a symbol as much as a sport. With a blend of individual confrontation and team play, a luxurious pace, and an immaculate urban parkland setting, it offers a sunny rendering of the American Dream, both the hard work that underpins it and the rewards it promises. Film, America's other national pastime, which magnifies and mythologizes all it touches, has long been the ideal medium to canonize this aspirational idea. Baseball: The Movie is the first definitive history of this film genre that was born in 1915 and remains artistically and culturally vital more than a century later. Writer and critic Noah Gittell sheds light on well-known classics and overlooked gems, exploring how baseball cinema creates a stage upon which the American ideal is born, performed, and repeatedly redefined. Traversing history and mythmaking, cynicism and nostalgia, this thoroughly researched book takes readers on a multifaceted tour of baseball on film"--,Provided by publisher.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Gittell, N. (2024). Baseball: the movie . Triumph Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Gittell, Noah. 2024. Baseball: The Movie. Triumph Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Gittell, Noah. Baseball: The Movie Triumph Books, 2024.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Gittell, Noah. Baseball: The Movie Triumph Books, 2024.
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