Mr Deeds Goes To Yankee Stadium

Author : Wes D. Gehring
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2010-07-27
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780786483501

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Mr. Deeds Goes to Yankee Stadium by Wes D. Gehring Pdf

Celebrated film director Frank Capra was a central architect of the "feel good" movie genre now known as populism, which celebrates people, families, second chances, and other traditional American icons such as small town or pastoral life and baseball. Capra developed his own brand of populism by interweaving traditional values of the genre with a younger, more vulnerable hero starting with Mr. Deeds Goes to Town in 1936. The result, Capraesque populism, has had a significant influence on American pop culture in general and forms a small but important subgenre of baseball movie. This book examines eight of these Capraesque baseball films, starting with the all-important Pride of the Yankees (1942), which one admiring critic has called "Mr. Deeds Goes to Yankee Stadium." An introduction provides an overview of baseball and populism. Individual chapters are devoted to the populist legacy from Will Rogers (Capra's mentor) to Capra, The Pride of the Yankees, The Stratton Story, Angels in the Outfield, The Natural, Bull Durham, Field of Dreams, Frequency and The Rookie.

Author : Edward Janak,Ludovic A. Sourdot
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2022-02-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781793647870

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Kevin Costner, America's Teacher by Edward Janak,Ludovic A. Sourdot Pdf

Kevin Costner: America's Teacher examines the role of Costner in educational settings domestically and abroad. Costner’s career over the past 35 years has seen ups and downs: his movies grossed 2 billion dollars in ticket sales worldwide and he has he won/been nominated for several Academy Awards but he also experienced critical and box office failures. Through the films in his oeuvre, Costner has been teaching audiences around the world about the United States--its history, people and culture. Some viewers and scholars recognize this as positive, others as problematic. This book serves as a place for teachers and scholars to explore ways in which Costner may be tapped for research and teaching purposes at all levels of education. It is organized around three large themes: Costner’s baseball films and their connection to Americana; Costner’s films through the more critical lenses of gender and new western scholarship; and Costner’s teaching of teachers, the pedagogical possibilities of his work.

Author : David Vaught
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-17
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781421408330

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The Farmers' Game by David Vaught Pdf

A journey through the national pastime’s roots in America’s small towns and wide-open spaces: “An absorbing read.” —The Tampa Tribune In the film Field of Dreams, the lead character gives his struggling farming community a magical place where the smell of roasted peanuts gently wafts over the crowded grandstand on a warm summer evening, just as the star pitcher takes the mound. In The Farmers’ Game, David Vaught examines the history and character of baseball through a series of essay-vignettes—presenting the sport as essentially rural, reflecting the nature of farm and small-town life. Vaught does not deny or devalue the lively stickball games played in the streets of Brooklyn, but he sees the history of the game and the rural United States as related and mutually revealing. His subjects include nineteenth-century Cooperstown, the playing fields of Texas and Minnesota, the rural communities of California, the great farmer-pitcher Bob Feller, and the notorious Gaylord Perry. Although—contrary to legend—Abner Doubleday did not invent baseball in a cow pasture in upstate New York, many fans enjoy the game for its nostalgic qualities. Vaught’s deeply researched exploration of baseball’s rural roots helps explain its enduring popularity.

Author : Michelle Nolan
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2014-11-26
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780786458301

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Ball Tales by Michelle Nolan Pdf

This history of American sports fiction traces depictions of baseball, basketball and football in works for all age levels from early dime novels through the 1960s. Chapters cover dime novel heroes Frank and Dick Merriwell; the explosion of sports novels before World War II and its influence on the authors who later wrote for baby boom readers; how sports novels persisted during the Great Depression; the rise and decline of sports pulps; why sports comics failed; postwar heroes Chip Hilton and Bronc Burnett; the lack of sports fiction for females; Duane Decker's Blue Sox books; and the classic John R. Tunis novels. Appendices list sports pulp titles and comic books featuring sports fiction.

Author : Ron Kaplan
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780803246485

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501 Baseball Books Fans Must Read Before They Die by Ron Kaplan Pdf

Propounding his “small ball theory” of sports literature, George Plimpton proposed that “the smaller the ball, the more formidable the literature.” Of course he had the relatively small baseball in mind, because its literature is formidable—vast and varied, instructive, often wildly entertaining, and occasionally brilliant. From this bewildering array of baseball books, Ron Kaplan has chosen 501 of the best, making it easier for fans to find just the books to suit them (or to know what they’re missing). From biography, history, fiction, and instruction to books about ballparks, business, and rules, anyone who loves to read about baseball will find in this book a companionable guide, far more fun than a reference work has any right to be.

Author : Wes D. Gehring
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2024-02-23
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476688992

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Kinds of American Film Comedy by Wes D. Gehring Pdf

This groundbreaking film study begins with a survey of American print humorists from eras leading up to and overlapping the advent of film--including some who worked both on the page and on the screen, like Robert Benchley, Will Rogers, Groucho Marx and W. C. Fields. Six comic film genres are identified as outgrowths of a national tradition of Cracker Barrel philosophers, personality comedy, parody, screwball comedy, romantic comedy and dark comedy. Whether it is Mark Twain or a parody film involving Steve Martin, comedy is most often about blowing "raspberries" at the world, and a reminder you are not alone.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Authors, American
ISBN : UCSD:31822037943214

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The Writers Directory by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2007-07
Category : United States
ISBN : UOM:49015003458669

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USA Today by Anonim Pdf

Author : Myron J. Smith
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Reference
ISBN : UOM:39015069290271

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The Baseball Bibliography by Myron J. Smith Pdf

"With over 57,000 entries, this two-volume set is the most comprehensive non-electronic, non-database, print bibliography on any American sport. Represented here are books and monographs, scholarly papers, government documents, doctoral dissertations, masters' theses, poetry and fiction, novels, pro team yearbooks, college and professional All-Star Game and World Series programs, commercially produced yearbooks, and periodical and journal articles"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Indiana
ISBN : UVA:X006174129

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Traces of Indiana and Midwestern History by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 860 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1939-08
Category : American wit and humor
ISBN : UOM:39015016745492

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The New Yorker by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 864 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : American literature
ISBN : UOM:39015066043194

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American Book Publishing Record by Anonim Pdf

Author : Arthur James Wells
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1884 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Bibliography, National
ISBN : UOM:39015066099196

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The British National Bibliography by Arthur James Wells Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1042 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Books
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123890324

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International Bibliography of Book Reviews of Scholarly Literature Chiefly in the Fields of Arts and Humanities and the Social Sciences by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ronald Bergan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015008335088

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Sports in the Movies by Ronald Bergan Pdf