Baseball The Movie, Noah Gittell
Baseball The Movie, Noah Gittell
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Baseball: The Movie

Author: Noah Gittell

Narrator: Noah Gittell

Unabridged: 9 hr 29 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/14/2024

Synopsis

Baseball has always been a symbol as much as a sport. With a blend of individual confrontation and team play, a luxurious pace, and an immaculate urban parkland setting, it offers a sunny rendering of the American Dream, both the hard work that underpins it and the rewards it promises. Film, America's other national pastime, which magnifies and mythologizes all it touches, has long been the ideal medium to canonize this aspirational idea. Baseball: The Movie is the first definitive history of this film genre that was born in 1915 and remains artistically and culturally vital more than a century later. Writer and critic Noah Gittell sheds light on well-known classics and overlooked gems, exploring how baseball cinema creates a stage upon which the American ideal is born, performed, and repeatedly redefined. Traversing history and mythmaking, cynicism and nostalgia, this thoroughly researched book takes listeners on a multifaceted tour of baseball on film.

About Noah Gittell

Noah Gittell is a culture critic who has written for publications including The Atlantic, The Ringer, GQ, Esquire, The Guardian, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. He is a regular film critic for the Washington City Paper and a frequent contributor to BBC. He is also a mainstay at Smithsonian Associates, where he lectures several times a year on various film topics.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Joshua on June 06, 2024

The baseball movie is one of my favorite genres despite its relatively lean number of titles. Every winter, I spin up these movies to feel better about no baseball. In the spring, I spin them up to keep my hype at maximum through preseason. I love all kinds—the historical look back, the comeback com......more

Goodreads review by John on May 31, 2024

This is for the crazed geniuses who work as booksellers at the local Barnes and Noble. They know why... This is the definitive book about movies on baseball, and not just because it offers the sanest case for why Bull Durham is the greatest baseball movie of all time. It also understands that even fil......more

Goodreads review by Zach on June 21, 2024

In many ways, Baseball: The Movie is a Venn diagram of two of my life's passions: baseball and film! For the most part--albeit a few slip-ups along the way--author Noah Gittell combines the two seamlessly in examining the history of the "baseball movie" in all its various forms. The hallmark of Baseb......more

Goodreads review by Nancy on June 21, 2024

Baseball friends, and anyone that loves the game, I just finished Baseball: The Movie. I highly recommend it. It highlights baseball movies throughout history. There are chapters on Fear Strikes Out, The Bad News Bears, Sandlot, Field of Dreams, Eight Men Out (the actors wanted to keep the uniforms,......more

Goodreads review by Jason on July 12, 2024

Glad the reviews weren’t just a recap of the good stuff. Took some of the movies to task for what wasn’t good then and hasn’t aged well now.......more

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