Baseball: The Movie - Hardcover
by Noah Gittell
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Availability:In StockContributor:Noah Gittell, John Sayles (Foreword by)Publish date:2024-05-14Pages:304
Language:EnglishPublisher:Triumph Books (IL)ISBN-13:9781637272640ISBN-10:1637272642UPC:9781637272640Book Category:Sports & Recreation, Performing Arts, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Baseball, Film, Popular CultureBook Topic:Essays & Writings, History & CriticismSize:9.10 x 6.10 x 1.20 inchesWeight:1.2015Product ID:SCB2HM6K31
"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.
--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.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Triumph Books (IL)ISBN-13:9781637272640ISBN-10:1637272642UPC:9781637272640Book Category:Sports & Recreation, Performing Arts, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Baseball, Film, Popular CultureBook Topic:Essays & Writings, History & CriticismSize:9.10 x 6.10 x 1.20 inchesWeight:1.2015Product ID:SCB2HM6K31
Noah Gittell is a culture critic who has written for publications including The Atlantic, The Ringer, GQ, Esquire, The Guardian, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. He is a regular film critic for the Washington City Paper and a frequent contributor to BBC. He is also a mainstay at Smithsonian Associates, where he lectures several times a year on various film topics.
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