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Stars, stripes and diamonds : American culture and the baseball film / Marshall G. Most and Robert Rudd.
- Title
- Stars, stripes and diamonds : American culture and the baseball film / Marshall G. Most and Robert Rudd.
- Author
- Most, Marshall G.
- Publication
- Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, c2006.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | PN1995.9.B28 M67 2006 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Rudd, Robert
- Description
- ix, 190 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- 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.
- Subject
- Baseball films > United States > History and criticism
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-186) and index.
- Includes filmography: p. 181-183.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- 1. America's game -- 2. Baseball on film : 1898-2005 -- 3. The community of baseball -- 4. Booze, broads, and baseball -- 5. For love of the game -- 6. Don't bet on it -- 7. I hate this #*%# song -- 8. The back of the dugout -- 9. Girls don't play baseball -- 10. The America that was meant to be.
- ISBN
- 0786425180 (softcover : alk. paper)
- 9780786425181
- LCCN
- ^^2006009606
- OCLC
- 65301767
- SCSB-11379591
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library