Baseball: The Movie - Hardcover

Name: Baseball: The Movie - Hardcover
Brand: BooksCloud
SKU: 9781637272640
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by Noah Gittell

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Book Overview

"Finally, someone takes baseball movies seriously! Baseball: The Movie blends the passion of a fan with the rigorous analysis of a film critic to create a persuasive argument that the baseball movie matters--to baseball, to Hollywood, even to America."
--Ben Mankiewicz, host, Turner Classic Movies

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.

ISBN	9781637272640
Author	Noah Gittell
Publisher	Triumph Books (IL)
Genre	Education, Arts, and Sports
Format	Hardcover
Published	May 2024
Language	ENG- English
Pages	304
Weight	1.0 lb
Target Audience	Adults
Print Size	Standard Print