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Stars, stripes and diamonds : American culture and the baseball film / Marshall G. Most and Robert Rudd.
Van Pelt Library PN1995.9.B28 M67 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Most, Marshall G.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Baseball films--United States--History and criticism.
- Baseball films.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 190 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, [2006]
- Summary:
- "This work treats baseball cinema as a separate film genre and explores the functions of baseball ideology as it is represented in that genre. It focuses on how the ideology of baseball has served not only to promote dominant values, but also to reconcile conflicting values in American culture"--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- 1 America's Game 5
- 2 Baseball on Film: 1898-2005 16
- 3 The Community of Baseball 62
- 4 Booze, Broads, and Baseball 78
- 5 For Love of the Game 100
- 6 Don't Bet on It 115
- 7 I Hate This #*%# Song 128
- 8 The Back of the Dugout 143
- 9 Girls Don't Play Baseball 157
- 10 The America That Was Meant to Be 174.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-186) and index.
- Includes filmography: pages 181-183.
- ISBN:
- 0786425180
- OCLC:
- 65301767
- Publisher Number:
- 9780786425181
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