Baseball & Film

ENG-300E-1

Binghamton University

  • Semester
    Summer 2024
  • Instructor
    Kenny Roggenkamp
  • Start Date
    07-08-2024
  • Total Credits
    4
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    607-777-6088

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In his novel Shoeless Joe, W.P Kinsella famously puts the notion that America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers but that there has always been baseball in J.D Salinger’s voice. Perhaps no sport is so associated with American ideology as baseball, where a century and a half of underdogs, comebacks, miracles, and bums has furnished audiences with a deep well of rhetoric about the relationship between baseball and the American dream. This course will investigate that relationship through the way in which baseball is depicted in Hollywood cinema. In particular, we will probe the way in which films about and around baseball depict issues of racism, sexism, class struggle, immigration, and national politics. Through films like 42, Field of Dreams, and A League of Their Own, we will question how baseball has been used in Hollywood cinema to prop up American ideological structures and question whether the baseball film has any radical potential.
Course Area: English & Literature
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Dates: 07-08-2024 - 08-09-2024
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Instructor: Kenny Roggenkamp
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