Sports on Film

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by Johnny D. Boggs

Type

Film Reviews

Subject

On Films > Film selections

Keywords

sports, american cinema, film selection

Publishing date

2024

Publisher

Bloomsbury Academic

Collection

Hollywood History

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 252 pages
6 x 9 ¼ inches (15.5 x 23.5 cm)

ISBN

979-8-7651-3091-9

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Book Presentation:
Sports on Film takes readers behind the scenes of how movies get made and puts them in the stands for some of the key moments in sports in America. Sports on Film documents key events in American sports history through the films that depict them, starting with the integration of major-league baseball when Jackie Robinson signed with the Brooklyn Dodgers. Other significant events and personalities examined include the college basketball point-shaving incident of the 1950s; journalist George Plimpton's attempt to go through the Detroit Lions' NFL training camp in the early 1960s; the originations and popularity of rodeo; the brief run of women's professional baseball during World War II; the underdog racehorse Seabiscuit during the Great Depression; the rise of African American boxer Muhammad Ali; the unique 1970s "Battle of the Sexes" tennis event between Bobby Riggs and Billie Jean King; and Ford Motor Company's run in the 1960s to take motorsports to Europe's premier event in Le Mans, France.

About the Author:
Johnny D. Boggs is a Spur and Western Heritage Wrangler award-winning novelist and film historian.

See the publisher website: Bloomsbury Academic