Sports on Film

Johnny D. Boggs (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

256 Seiten

2021
ABC-CLIO (Verlag)
978-1-4408-7555-7 (ISBN)

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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.

Johnny D. Boggs is an award-winning freelance magazine writer, novelist, and film historian living in Santa Fe, NM. A native of South Carolina, he is a former newspaper journalist.

Series Foreword
Preface
Introduction
Chronology
1. The Jackie Robinson Story (1950)
2. The Basketball Fix (1951)
3. Paper Lion (1968)
4. Junior Bonner (1972)
5. A League of Their Own (1992)
6. Ali (2001)
7. Seabiscuit (2003)
8. Miracle (2004)
9. Battle of the Sexes (2017)
10. Ford v Ferrari (2019)
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	01.11.2021
Reihe/Serie	Hollywood History
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 235 mm
Gewicht	510 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
	Weitere Fachgebiete ► Sportwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-4408-7555-3 / 1440875553
ISBN-13	978-1-4408-7555-7 / 9781440875557
Zustand	Neuware