Hollywood's Vision of Team Sports

Hollywood's Vision of Team Sports
Author: Deborah V. Tudor
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2018-10-24
Genre: History
ISBN: 1317944755

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This book analyzes the ways in which sport reflects, imitates, and questions cultural values. It examines the representation of team sports, heroes, race, families, and gender in films and other media. Analysis of the ways in which broadcast media and films create such images allows us to map the ways in which traditional cultural beliefs and practices resist and accommodate changes. Films about sport do not reproduce a simple, unified set of values-rather, they exhibit the complications of attempting to negotiate ideological contradictions. During the last 50 years, sports films have shifted from the heroic idealization of The Babe Ruth Story (1948) to films revealing complexities, controversies, and uncertainties within the sports world, like Everybody's All American (1988). These contradictions are especially strong in the areas of race and gender, which are related major changes in the traditional notion of the hero. The book traces the transformation of the image of the hero in sports films within the context of the development of the sports celebrity, epitomized by Michael Jordan.

Hollywood's Team

Hollywood's Team
Author: Jim Hock
Publisher: Vireo Book, A
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2016-12-06
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781945572265

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In 2016, after twenty years in St. Louis, the Rams are back in their longtime home. Some call their return to Los Angeles a relocation, but it's more the restoration of a city landmark. Hollywood's Team follows the Rams of the 1950s. They were glamorous, glitzy, and most of all, they were exciting. Like the city itself, the Rams were comprised of both big stars and everyday workhorses like John Hock, father of the author--a quiet, humble, and stout offensive guard. They were the first major professional sports team west of the Mississippi River, the first to integrate, even before Jackie Robinson, the first team to reach a million fans, and the first team with a TV contract. The Rams of the 1950s were, in so many ways, the first modern sports franchise. Their roster is a who's who of the NFL Hall Fame. Names such as quarterback Norm "The Dutchman" Van Brocklin, wide receiver Elroy "Crazy Legs" Hirsch, Bob Waterfield, Tom Fears, defensive back Dick "Night Train" Lane, and linebacker Les Richter. Other notables from the era include a wunderkind public relations man named Pete Rozelle who would go on to become the boy commissioner of the NFL at age thirty-three. Head coach Sid Gillman was an architect ofthe modern passing game. Owner Dan Reeves was a genius in business, but troubled by alcohol. Heck, even the iconic comedian Bob Hope was a partial owner of the Rams at the time. The Rams were Hollywood's team. This is their story.

Hollywood's Great Love Teams

Hollywood's Great Love Teams
Author: James Robert Parish
Publisher: Crown
Total Pages: 840
Release: 1974
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

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Hollywood's Indies

Hollywood's Indies
Author: Yannis Tzioumakis
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2013-08-12
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 074866453X

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Hollywood's Indies offers an in depth examination of the phenomenon of the classics divisions by tracing its history since the establishment of the first specialty label in 1980.

Hollywood's Team

Hollywood's Team
Author: Jim Hock
Publisher:
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2019-09-17
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781644280928

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In 2016, after twenty years in St. Louis, the Rams are back in their longtime home. Some call their return to Los Angeles a relocation, but it's more the restoration of a city landmark. Hollywood's Team follows the Rams of the 1950s. They were glamorous, glitzy, and most of all, they were exciting. Like the city itself, the Rams were comprised of both big stars and everyday workhorses like John Hock, father of the author--a quiet, humble, and stout offensive guard. They were the first major professional sports team west of the Mississippi River, the first to integrate, even before Jackie Robinson, the first team to reach a million fans, and the first team with a TV contract. The Rams of the 1950s were, in so many ways, the first modern sports franchise. Their roster is a who's who of the NFL Hall Fame. Names such as quarterback Norm "The Dutchman" Van Brocklin, wide receiver Elroy "Crazy Legs" Hirsch, Bob Waterfield, Tom Fears, defensive back Dick "Night Train" Lane, and linebacker Les Richter. Other notables from the era include a wunderkind public relations man named Pete Rozelle who would go on to become the boy commissioner of the NFL at age thirty-three. Head coach Sid Gillman was an architect ofthe modern passing game. Owner Dan Reeves was a genius in business, but troubled by alcohol. Heck, even the iconic comedian Bob Hope was a partial owner of the Rams at the time. The Rams were Hollywood's team. This is their story.

Hollywood Movie Novels

Hollywood Movie Novels
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 658
Release: 1918
Genre: Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)
ISBN:

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The Hollywood Reporter

The Hollywood Reporter
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 708
Release: 2008
Genre: Motion pictures
ISBN:

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The Dream Team

The Dream Team
Author: Daniel M. Kimmel
Publisher: Ivan R. Dee Publisher
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2006
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

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On October 12, 1994, Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg, and David Geffen - announced they would form a new studio that was eventually called Dreamworks. Dreamworks would produce feature films, television series, and pop music recordings. In The Dream Team, Daniel M. Kimmel tells the behind-the-scenes story of DreamWorks' rise and the end of the dream eleven years later, when most of the company was sold off or shut down.

Can Anything Good Come Out of Hollywood?

Can Anything Good Come Out of Hollywood?
Author: Laurance Landreth Hill
Publisher:
Total Pages: 72
Release: 1923
Genre: Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)
ISBN:

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Illustration on front cover of the title, a large cross, a movie camera, and a red question mark.

Hollywood's Cold War

Hollywood's Cold War
Author: Tony Shaw
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2007-09-19
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0748630732

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