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 M

From the outbreak of the Cold War to the rise of the United States as the last remaining superpower, the years following World War II were filled with momentous

"Through the heart of Hollywood cinema runs a surprising current of progressive politics. Sports movies, a genre that has flourished since the mid-seventies, ev

Sports and film are media that create time. They are temporal not only in the sense that they are defined and regulated by certain temporalities as a result of

When the colonies that became the USA were still dominions of the British Empire they began to imagine their sporting pastimes as finer recreations than even th