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The Baseball Film
A Cultural and Transmedia History
By Aaron Baker
Rutgers University Press
Covering everything from Bull Durham (1988) to The Bad News Bears (1976) this book examines how baseball-themed films and TV series depict the game, its players, fans, and place in American society. It considers works that nostalgically lionize white male heroes alongside films and television that dramatize the contributions of female and BIPOC players.
The Boxing Film
A Cultural and Transmedia History
By Travis Vogan
Rutgers University Press
As one of popular culture’s most popular arenas, sports are often the subject of cinematic storytelling. But boxing films are special. There are more movies about boxing, than any other sport,The Boxing Film explores why boxing has so consistently fascinated cinema, and popular media, by tracing how boxing films inform the sport’s meanings and uses from the late nineteenth century to the early twenty-first century.
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