The Baseball Film in Postwar America

A Critical Study, 1948–1962

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by Ron Briley

Type

Studies

Subject

Countries > United States

Keywords

United States, sports, 1950s, baseball

Publishing date

2011

Publisher

McFarland & Co

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 220 pages
6 x 9 inches (15 x 23 cm)

ISBN

978-0-7864-6123-3

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Book Presentation:
This work focuses on the baseball movie genre in the years following World War II, beginning with the 1948 biopic The Babe Ruth Story and ending with the 1962 Mickey Mantle-Roger Maris vehicle Safe at Home!, when the consensus was that conflict should be limited in American society by emphasizing economic growth and a strong stand against Communism.

This study of selected films indicates, however, that this strategy was not entirely effective; while offering a certain amount of nostalgia, these films could not provide shelter from the storm gathering in postwar America which challenged conventional ideas of race, gender and class and broke in the 1960s.

About the Author:
Ron Briley is assistant headmaster and teaches history at Sandia Preparatory School in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where he has taught for more than thirty years. His baseball essays have been published in the annuals for the Cooperstown Symposium and in such journals as Baseball History and Nine. He is the author of several books and lives in Albuquerque.

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