Stars, Stripes and Diamonds: American Culture and the Baseball Film
- ISBN-10
- 0786425180
- ISBN-13
- 9780786425181
- Category
- Sports & Recreation
- Pages
- 200
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2006-04-18
- Publisher
- McFarland
- Authors
- Marshall G. Most, Robert Rudd
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
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