Reel baseball : essays and interviews on the national pastime, Hollywood, and American culture / edited by Stephen C. Wood and J. David Pincus ; forewords by Dale Petroskey and Alvin L. Hall.
Reel 4: Stephen C. Wood, J. David Pincus. Foreword / alvin L. Hall -- Reel 1. Post game analysis : reflections on baseball, film and American culture / American mythos in film : the natural / Stephen C. Wood, J. David Pincus, J. Nicholas DeBonis -- Returning to the America that was meant to be : the cinematic re emergence of baseball's vision of community / Robert Rudd, Marshall G. Most -- W.P. Kinsella's baseball fiction : Field of dreams and the new mythopoeism of baseball / Thomas L. Altherr -- Baseball mystery, cinema magic / George Grella -- Designated heroes : cinematic reflections of baseball's cultural ideology / Marshall G. Most, Robert Rudd -- Myth and rebirth of Shoeless Joe Jackson in Eight men out and Field of dreams / Kurt Billmeyer -- Reel 2. Babe Ruth and the silver screen. From Christ like folk hero to bumbling Bacchus : filmic images of Babe Ruth, 1920-1992 / Frank Ardolino -- Persistence of vision : a study of Babe Ruth in Headin' home / Patrick Trimble -- Babe Ruth and the feature film : the muddling of the myth / Richard C. Crepeau -- Reel 3. Baseball in non baseball films. Baseball in non baseball films : from family to mirth ; Baseball in non baseball films : from culture to the ephemeral / Stephen C. Wood ... [et al.] -- Family of baseball : perceptions of the American family in baseball films / William Simons -- Baseball moment in American film / George Grella -- Meet John Doe, Frank Capra, and baseball : the celebration and dark side of the American dream / Ron Briley -- Reel 4: Last inning. Directors and producers : interviews with Phil Alden Robinson, Ron Shelton, Penny Marshall and Arthur Friedman ; Actors and critics : interviews with Kevin Costner, James Earl Jones, James Belushi, Robert Osborne and Jeffrey Lyons ; Behind the scenes : interviews with Vin Scully, Lynn Novick, Brent Shyer, and Rod Dedeaux ; Post game analysis : reflections on baseball, film and American culture / Stephen C. Wood, J. David Pincus.
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