{"product_id":"mr-deeds-goes-to-yankee-stadium","title":"Mr. Deeds Goes to Yankee Stadium","description":"\u003cp\u003e   Celebrated film director Frank Capra was a central architect of the \"feel good\" movie genre now known as populism, which celebrates people, families, second chances, and other traditional American icons such as small town or pastoral life and baseball. Capra developed his own brand of populism by interweaving traditional values of the genre with a younger, more vulnerable hero starting with \u003ci\u003eMr. Deeds Goes to Town\u003c\/i\u003e in 1936. The result, Capraesque populism, has had a significant influence on American pop culture in general and forms a small but important subgenre of baseball movie.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e   This book examines eight of these Capraesque baseball films, starting with the all-important \u003ci\u003ePride of the Yankees\u003c\/i\u003e (1942), which one admiring critic has called \"Mr. Deeds Goes to Yankee Stadium.\" An introduction provides an overview of baseball and populism. Individual chapters are devoted to the populist legacy from Will Rogers (Capra's mentor) to Capra, \u003ci\u003eThe Pride of the Yankees, The Stratton Story, Angels in the Outfield, The Natural, Bull Durham, Field of Dreams, Frequency\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Rookie.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"McFarland \u0026 Co Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54261121286488,"sku":"9780786417735","price":27.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780786417735.jpg?v=1764939644","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/mr-deeds-goes-to-yankee-stadium","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}