Research Catalog

Title

Reel baseball : essays and interviews on the national pastime, Hollywood and American culture / edited by Stephen C. Wood and J. David Pincus ; forewords by Dale Petroskey and Alvin L. Hall.

Publication

Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., [2003], ©2003.

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Additional Authors

• Wood, Stephen C., 1947-
• Pincus, J. David.

Description

xiii, 312 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Subject

• Baseball films > History and criticism

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Foreword / Dale Petroskey -- Foreword / Alvin L. Hall -- Reel 1. Baseball in Baseball Films -- 1. The American Mythos in Film: The Natural / Stephen C. Wood, J. David Pincus and J. Nicholas DeBonis -- 2. Returning to the America That Was Meant of Be: The Cinematic Re-Emergence of Baseball's Vision of Community / Robert Rudd and Marshall G. Most -- 3. W. P. Kinsella's Baseball Fiction: Field of Dreams and the New Mythopoeism of Baseball / Thomas J. Altherr -- 4. Baseball Mystery, Cinema Magic / George Grella -- 5. Designated Heroes: Cinematic Reflections of Baseball's Cultural Ideology / Marshall G. Most and Robert Rudd -- 6. The Myth and Rebirth of Shoeless Joe Jackson in Eight Men Out and Field of Dreams / Kurt Billmeyer -- Reel 2. Babe Ruth and the Silver Screen -- 7. From Christ-Like Folk Hero to Bumbling Bacchus: Filmic Images of Babe Ruth, 1920-1992 / Frank Ardolino -- 8. Persistence of Vision: A Study of Babe Ruth in Headin' Home / Patrick Trimble --
• 9. Babe Ruth and the Feature Film: The Muddling of the Myth / Richard C. Crepeau -- Reel 3. Baseball in Non-Baseball Films -- 10. Baseball in Non-Baseball Films: From Family to Mirth / Stephen C. Wood, J. David Pincus, George Mastroianni and J. Nicholas DeBonis -- 11. Baseball in Non-Baseball Films: From Culture to the Ephemeral / Stephen C. Wood, J. David Pincus, George Mastroianni and J. Nicholas DeBonis -- 12. The Family of Baseball: Perceptions of the American Family in Baseball Films / William Simons -- 13. The Baseball Moment in American Film / George Grella -- 14. Meet John Doe, Frank Capra, and Baseball: The Celebration and Dark Side of the American Dream / Ron Briley -- Reel 4. The Last Inning -- 15. The Directors and Producers: Interviews with Phil Alden Robinson, Ron Shelton, Penny Marshall and Arthur Friedman / Stephen C. Wood and J. David Pincus --
• 16. The Actors and Critics: Interviews with Kevin Costner, James Earl Jones, James Belushi, Robert Osborne and Jeffrey Lyons / Stephen C. Wood and J. David Pincus -- 17. Behind the Scenes: Interviews with Vin Scully, Lynn Novick, Brent Shyer, and Rod Dedeaux / Stephen C. Wood and J. David Pincus -- Post-Game Analysis: Reflections on Baseball, Film and American Culture / Stephen C. Wood and J. David Pincus.

ISBN

0786413891 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2002154476

OCLC

• ocm51098099
• SCSB-4335905

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries