Stars, Stripes and Diamonds: American Culture and the Baseball Film

by Marshall G. Most and Robert Rudd

Since the Progressive Era, baseball has been promoted as an institution encapsulating the best of American values and capable of bridging the chasms of twentieth century American culture--urban versus rural, industry versus agriculture, individual versus community, immigrant versus native, white versus color. Among the more enthusiastic of the game's proponents have been American filmmakers, and baseball films present perhaps the purest depiction...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786425180
• ISBN13: 9780786425181
• Release Date: April 2006
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher