Stars, Stripes and Diamonds
Subtitle: American Culture and the Baseball Film
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publisher; McFarland
Published: April 18, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780786425181
Subjects: Baseball; Films, cinema; Popular culture; Sports & Recreation; Film Criticism; Performing Arts; Pop Arts / Pop Culture; Cinema/Film: Book; USA; General; Baseball - General; Film & Video - History & Criticism; United States; Baseball films; History and criticism
Description: "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.