{"id":1766,"date":"2006-03-20T09:20:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-20T14:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2006\/03\/20\/march-madness-basketball-films-in-media-services\/"},"modified":"2006-03-20T09:20:00","modified_gmt":"2006-03-20T14:20:00","slug":"march-madness-basketball-films-in-media-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2006\/03\/20\/march-madness-basketball-films-in-media-services\/","title":{"rendered":"March Madness: Basketball films in Media Services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<span style=\"font-weight:bold\">The Big Game<\/span> (1982, VHS 4067) &#8211; From the classic <span style=\"font-style:italic\">Middletown <\/span>film series on life in and around Muncie, Indiana &#8211; itself a complement to the Middletown studies conducted by Robert and Helen Lynd in the 1920s and 1930s. Director E.J. Vaughn uses a cinema verite technique to capture the activity surrounding the annual basketball game between the Muncie Central High School Bearcats and the Anderson High School Indians.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:bold\">Hoop Dreams<\/span> (1994, VHS 3425) This remarkable film follows William Gates and Arthur Agee, two African-American teenagers who are recruited to a predominantly white high school on basketball scholarships. Their struggle to survive in a highly competitive environment while dealing with family hardships is captured. In 1995, it gained attention for NOT being nominated for the Best Documentary Academy Award. <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:bold\">In the Game<\/span> (1994, VHS 4165) Behind-the-scenes story of one season with Coach Tara VanDerveer and the Stanford Women\u2019s Basketball Team as they try to win a national championship. It takes a look at the inequities in men\u2019s and women\u2019s sports and examines how women\u2019s college athletics have been affected by Title IX.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Big Game (1982, VHS 4067) &#8211; From the classic Middletown film series on life in and around Muncie, Indiana &#8211; itself a complement to the Middletown studies conducted by Robert and Helen Lynd in the 1920s and 1930s. Director E.J. Vaughn uses a cinema verite technique to capture the activity surrounding the annual basketball [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[326],"class_list":["post-1766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recommendations","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}