Keepers of the Flame NFL Films and the Rise of Sports Media 1st Edition by Travis Vogan ISBN 0252096274 9780252096273

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ISBN 10: 0252096274

ISBN 13: 9780252096273 

Author: Travis Vogan 

NFL Films changed the way Americans viewed professional football. In Keepers of the Flame: NFL Films and the Rise of Sports Media, Travis Vogan presents NFL Films’ rise from a small independent production company to a marketing machine Sports Illustrated called “perhaps the most effective propaganda organ in the history of corporate America.”

Drawing on research at the NFL Films Archive and the Pro Football Hall of Fame and interviews with media pioneer Steve Sabol and others, Vogan traces how NFL Films constructed a romanticized, remarkably visible mythology for the National Football League by packaging pro football as a heroic sequence of violent and beautiful gridiron battles. John Facenda’s honeyed “Voice of God” baritone and Sam Spence’s soaring scores merged with the epic poetry in Steve Sabol’s scripts to create a hugely successful entertainment formula still used today.

Vogan also shows the company’s relationship with and vast influence on our culture’s representations of sport, the expansion of sports television beyond live game broadcasts, and the emergence of cable television and Internet sports media. His analysis presents sports media as an integral facet of American popular culture, and NFL Films as key to the transformation of pro football into the national obsession known as America’s Game.

Table of contents:

1: Creating and Sustaining America’s Game
2: More Movies than News
3: The NFL’s Smithsonian
4: The Shakespeares of Sports Films
5: Keeping the Flame in the Broadcast Era
6: Cable, NFL Media, and NFL Films’ Dinosaur Television

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