Ron Briley
Biographic Data
| ID | 1104651 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ron Briley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ron |
| FAMILY NAME | Briley |
| SIGNATURE | BRILEY R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Sandia Preparatory School, Albuquerque, New Mexico |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 51 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 51 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Everyday Movies: Portable Film Projectors and the Transformation of American Culture
Portable media devices are ubiquitous in contemporary American and global cultures, offering hope for greater democratization but simultaneously raising fears of corporate and governmental manipulation of the masses. In Everyday Movies, Haidee Wasson argues that these issues are hardly unique to the twenty-first century. Wasson concentrates on the 1920s and 1930s, when portable projectors as well as 16- and 8-mm film first transformed American cu…
James T. Farrell and Baseball: Dreams and Realism on Chicago's South Side
During the 1930s and 1940s, James T. Farrell was a prolific American writer; his naturalistic novels include the Studs Lonigan trilogy (Young Lonigan [1932], The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan [1934], and Judgment Day [1935]) and the Danny O'Neill pentalogy (A World I Never Made [1936], No Star Is Lost [1938], Father and Son [1940], My Days of Anger [1943], and The Face of Time [1953]). In James T. Farrell and Baseball, Charles DeMotte documents …
Sports Heroines in Film: A Critical Study of Cinematic Women Athletes, Coaches and Owners
Book Review| October 01 2017 Sports Heroines in Film: A Critical Study of Cinematic Women Athletes, Coaches and Owners Lieberman, Viridiana. Sports Heroines in Film: A Critical Study of Cinematic Women Athletes, Coaches and Owners. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, 2014. Pp. 189. Preface, notes, bibliography, and index. $40.00, pb. Ron Briley Ron Briley Sandia Prep School Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Spo…
Chronology of Latin Americans in Baseball, 1871–2015
Book Review| October 01 2017 Chronology of Latin Americans in Baseball, 1871–2015 Hernández, Lou. Chronology of Latin Americans in Baseball, 1871–2015. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2016. Pp. 232. Photographs, notes, bibliography, appendixes, and index. $39.95, pb. Ron Briley Ron Briley Sandia Prep School Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Sport History (2017) 44 (3): 509–510. https://doi.org/10.5406/jsporthistory.4…
Exploring U2: Is This Rock ‘n’ Roll? Essays on the Music, Work, and Influence of U2
The rock band U2 has achieved considerable commercial and critical success, selling millions of records and performing sold-out stadium concerts noted for their visual effects. The band is also rec...
Time Out of Mind: The Lives of Bob Dylan
In this second volume of his Bob Dylan biography, Scottish journalist Ian Bell, a recipient of the George Orwell Prize, traces the life and music of Dylan from the triumph of Blood on the Tracks (1...
Patti Smith: America’s Punk Rock Rhapsodist
One does not usually associate the punk genre of rock and roll with mainstream intellectual achievement and recognition such as the National Book Award. Similarly to academics and critics who argue...
The Burglary: The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover's Secret FBIBettyMedsger. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2014
In Pursuit of Pennants: Baseball Operations from Deadball to Moneyball
Counting down Bob Dylan: His 100 Finest Songs
To initiate its Counting Down music series, Scarecrow Press has chosen to focus upon the songs of Bob Dylan, an artist whose work and influence extend from the 1960s into the 21st century. Enumerat...
Invisible Now: Bob Dylan in the 1960s
In Invisible Now, John Hughes presents a detailed reading of Bob Dylan’s music and lyrics during the 1960s when the singer was proclaimed as the voice of his generation. In seeking to understand Dy...
Keepers of the Flame: NFL Films and the Rise of Sports Media
Book Review| July 01 2015 Keepers of the Flame: NFL Films and the Rise of Sports Media Vogan, Travis. Keepers of the Flame: NFL Films and the Rise of Sports Media. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2014. Pp. ix+238. Photographs, notes, bibliography, and index. $25.00 pb. Ron Briley Ron Briley Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Sport History (2015) 42 (2): 285–286. https://doi.org/10.5406/jsporthistory.42.2.0…
The Untold History of the United StatesOliverStone and PeterKuznick. New York: Gallery Books, 2012
Eastwood’s Iwo Jima: Critical engagement with Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima
In 2006, director Clint Eastwood made a significant contribution to cinematic history by releasing two films that provided American and Japanese perspectives, respectively, on the bloody battle wag
In the Best Interests of Baseball? Governing the National Pastime
Book Review| April 01 2014 In the Best Interests of Baseball? Governing the National Pastime Zimbalist, Andrew. In the Best Interests of Baseball? Governing the National Pastime. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2013. Pp. xvi+266. Photographs, notes, and index. $24.95 pb. Ron Briley Ron Briley Sandia Preparatory School, Albuquerque, New Mexico Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Sport History (2014) 41 (1):…
Meeting Jimmie Rodgers: How America's Original Roots Music Hero Changed the Pop Sounds of a Century
Long acknowledged as the “Father of Country Music,” singer and songwriter Jimmie Rodgers, who died in 1933 at age 36 from tuberculosis, is enshrined in the Country Music Hall of Fame, Rock and Roll
Tracking King Kong: A Hollywood icon in world cinema
In this update to her 1997 examination of King Kong as an icon of world cinema and culture, Erb includes an in-depth analysis of filmmaker Peter Jackson’s King Kong (1998) which takes her study bey
If You Were Only White”: The Life of Leroy “Satchel” Paige
Book Review| October 01 2013 “If You Were Only White”: The Life of Leroy “Satchel” Paige Spivey, Donald. “If You Were Only White”: The Life of Leroy “Satchel” Paige. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2012. Pp. xxv+347. Notes, bibliography, photographs, and index. $29.95 cb. Ron Briley Ron Briley Sandia Preparatory School, Albuquerque, New Mexico Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Sport History (2013) 40 (3…
The Battle for the Bs: 1950S Hollywood and the Rebirth of Low-Budget Cinema
During their adolescence in the 1950s, the contemporary filmmakers Steven Spielberg and George Lucas drew their inspiration from popular science fiction B-films of the era. Classic science fiction and horror films such as Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (1956) and I Was a Teenage Werewolf (1957) are the subject of Blair Davis's fascinating study of post–World War II cinema. Defining the B-film as low-budget popular entertainment alternatives to main…
Stayin’ Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working ClassJeffersonCowie. New York: The New Press, 2010
Knockout: The boxer and boxing in American cinema
Raceball: How the Major Leagues Colonized the Black and Latin Game
Book Review| October 01 2012 Raceball: How the Major Leagues Colonized the Black and Latin Game Ruck, Rob. Raceball: How the Major Leagues Colonized the Black and Latin Game. Boston: Beacon Press, 2011. Pp. xiii+273. Notes, photographs, and index. $25.95 cb. Ron Briley Ron Briley Sandia Preparatory School, Albuquerque, New Mexico Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Sport History (2012) 39 (3): 565–567. https://do…
Each Branch, Each Needle: An Anecdotal Memoir, The Final Stories
Book Review| April 01 2012 Each Branch, Each Needle: An Anecdotal Memoir, The Final Stories Dorfman, H.A. Each Branch, Each Needle: An Anecdotal Memoir, The Final Stories. Lanham, Md.: Hamilton Books, 2010. Pp. 157. $28.00 pb. Ron Briley Ron Briley Sandia Preparatory School, Albuquerque, New Mexico Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Sport History (2012) 39 (1): 170–171. https://doi.org/10.5406/jsporthistory.39.1…
The American Worker on Film: A Critical History, 1909-1999 by Doyle Greene
Hard Hats, Rednecks, and Macho Men: Class in 1970s American cinema
Baseball and the Cold War: An Examination of Values
Despite drug problems and compe tition from a multitude of other enter tainments, the game of baseball retains its hold on contemporary ado lescents, both male and female, and can be used to decode the complexi ties of the Cold War. In fact, it can be argued that the current problems confronting the sport show that base ball continues to present a view of American society in microcosm. As writer Roger Angel? has observed, baseball is an ageless s…
The Battle for the Bs: 1950S Hollywood and the Rebirth of Low-Budget Cinema
During their adolescence in the 1950s, the contemporary filmmakers Steven Spielberg and George Lucas drew their inspiration from popular science fiction B-films of the era. Classic science fiction and horror films such as Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (1956) and I Was a Teenage Werewolf (1957) are the subject of Blair Davis's fascinating study of post–World War II cinema. Defining the B-film as low-budget popular entertainment alternatives to main…
Teaching Film and History
Teaching Film and History Get access Ron Briley Ron Briley Ron Briley is assistant headmaster and a history teacher at Sandia Preparatory School in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where he has taught for twenty-four years. His work on film and history has appeared in The History Teacher, Film & History, Literature/Film Quarterly, AHA Perspectives, and Social Education. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar OAH Magazine…
Baseball and the Cold War: An Examination of Values
Despite drug problems and compe tition from a multitude of other enter tainments, the game of baseball retains its hold on contemporary ado lescents, both male and female, and can be used to decode the complexi ties of the Cold War. In fact, it can be argued that the current problems confronting the sport show that base ball continues to present a view of American society in microcosm. As writer Roger Angel? has observed, baseball is an ageless s…
"Lesson Plan for "Baseball and the Cold War: An Examination of Values
Journal Article Lesson Plan for “Baseball and the Cold War: An Examination of Values” Get access Ron Briley Ron Briley Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar OAH Magazine of History, Volume 2, Issue 1, Summer 1986, Page 24, https://doi.org/10.1093/maghis/2.1.24 Published: 01 June 1986
Murder on the Santa Fe Trail: An International Incident, 1843
Journal Article Murder on the Santa Fe Trail: An International Incident, 1843 and Bandit Years: A Gathering of Wolves Get access Murder on the Santa Fe Trail: An International Incident, 1843. By Simmons Marc. (El Paso: Texas Western Press/University of Texas, 1987. xviii + 92 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $15.00.)Bandit Years: A Gathering of Wolves. By Dugan Mark. (Santa Fe: Sunstone Press, 1987. 128 pp. Illustrations, notes, bib…
Baseball and American Cultural Values
Introduction Philosopher Jacques Barzun once observed that anyone wish ing to understand heart and mind of America should study sport of baseball, viewed by many as national pastime. Many writers and historians have echoed support for Barzun's statement, and there has been a proliferation of scholarly literature on sport. Some of America's finest novelists have used imagery of baseball. Thomas Wolfe stated, Is there anything that can evoke spring…
George Scarborough: The Life and Death of a Lawman on the Closing Frontier
Journal Article George Scarborough: The Life and Death of a Lawman on the Closing Frontier Get access George Scarborough: The Life and Death of a Lawman on the Closing Frontier. By DeArment Robert K.. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992. xiv + 322 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $24.95.) Ron Briley Ron Briley Sandia Preparatory School, Albuquerque, New Mexico Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google …
Reel History and the Cold War
Journal Article Reel History and the Cold War Get access Ronald Briley Ronald Briley Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar OAH Magazine of History, Volume 8, Issue 2, Winter 1994, Pages 19–22, https://doi.org/10.1093/maghis/8.2.19 Published: 01 January 1994
Reel History and the Cold War: A Lesson Plan
Journal Article Reel History and the Cold War: A Lesson Plan Get access Ronald Briley Ronald Briley Ronald Briley is a history teacher and Assistant Headmaster at Sandia Preparatory School in Albuquerque, New Mexico. For the last ten years he has taught a senior elective using Hollywood films as a primary source. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar OAH Magazine of History, Volume 8, Issue 2, Winter 1994, Page …
Baseball When the Grass Was Real and Baseball Between the Lines
Old West/New West: Quo Vadis
Journal Article Old West/New West: Quo Vadis? Get access Old West/New West: Quo Vadis? Edited by Gressley Gene M.. (Worland, WY: High Plains Publishing, 1994. 199 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $27.50.) Briley Ron Briley Ron Sandia Preparatory School, Albuquerque, New Mexico Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 26, Issue 3, Autumn 1995, Pages 404–405, https://doi.org/10.23…
A Complete History of the Negro Leagues, 1884 to 1955
Journal Article A Complete History of the Negro Leagues, 1884 to 1955. By Mark Ribowsky. (New York: Birch Lane, 1995. xx, 332 pp. $24.95, ISBN 1-55972-283-5.) Get access Ron Briley Ron Briley Sandia Preparatory School, Albuquerque, New Mexico Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Issue 3, December 1996, Page 1038, https://doi.org/10.2307/2945720 Published: 01 December 1996
Cradle Will Rock
Cradle Will Rock is a labor of love produced by the activist actor-filmmaker Tim Robbins, who attempts to capture the mood of despair in depression-era America as well as the new possibilities generated by such New Deal programs as the Federal Theater Project (FTP) of the Works Progress Administration (WPA). Robbins focuses his film on the Orson Welles (Angus MacFadyen) and John Houseman (Cary Elwes) production of Marc Blitzstein's (Hank Azaria) …
Teaching Film and History
Teaching Film and History Get access Ron Briley Ron Briley Ron Briley is assistant headmaster and a history teacher at Sandia Preparatory School in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where he has taught for twenty-four years. His work on film and history has appeared in The History Teacher, Film & History, Literature/Film Quarterly, AHA Perspectives, and Social Education. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar OAH Magazine…
Mark Twain
Although the filmmaker Ken Burns often insists that he is not a historian, the collaboration between Burns and public television (PBS) has produced a body of popular history dealing with such diverse topics as the Civil War, the American West, baseball, jazz, Thomas Jefferson, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. To this collection has been added a nearly fourhour examination of the American literary giant Mark Twain. The Twain film follows the familiar B…
The Chautauqua Moment: Protestants, Progressives, and the Culture of Modern Liberalism
How the West Was Sung: Music in the Westerns of John Ford by Kathryn Kalinak
Redacted ‐ Directed by Brian De Palma and Battle for Haditha ‐ Directed by Nick Broomfield
Fight Pictures: A history of boxing and early cinema
Frost/Nixon
Ron Howard's adaptation of Peter Morgan's successful 2007 Broadway play Frost/Nixon garnered considerable critical acclaim and a moderate box office return for a film of its serious historical nature. The performances of Michael Sheen, who portrayed Prime Minister Tony Blair in Morgan's screenplay for The Queen (2006), as David Frost and Frank Langella, who won a Tony Award for his Broadway work in Frost/Nixon, as former president Richard M. Nixo…
Clint Eastwood, Actor and Director: New Perspectives
Journal Article Clint Eastwood, Actor and Director: New Perspectives Get access Clint Eastwood, Actor and Director: New Perspectives. Edited by Engel Leonard. (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2007. viii + 269 pp. Notes, index. $21.95, paper.) Ron Briley Ron Briley Sandia Preparatory School Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 40, Issue 2, Summer 2009, Pages 238–239…
Books: A Memoir by Larry McMurtry
A Bomb in Every Issue: How the Short, Unruly Life of Ramparts Magazine Changed America by Peter Richardson
The Guitar in America: Victorian Era to Jazz Age
The Music of Joni Mitchell
Lloyd Whitesell, New York: Oxford University Press, 2008, ISBN: 0195307992, 288 pp, $99.00 (hb), $21.95 (pb) Proclaimed by Rolling Stone as one of the “greatest songwriters,” Canadian-born Joni Mit
California Dreaming: Jules Tygiel and Scholarship beyond the Diamond
Research Article| July 01 2010 California Dreaming: Jules Tygiel and Scholarship beyond the Diamond Ron Briley Ron Briley Sandia Preparatory School Correspondence to [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Sport History (2010) 37 (2): 213–217. https://doi.org/10.5406/jsporthistory.37.2.213 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Ron Bri…
A People’s History of Sports in the United States: 250 Years of Politics, Protest, People, and Play
Book Review| April 01 2010 A People’s History of Sports in the United States: 250 Years of Politics, Protest, People, and Play Zirin, Dave. A People’s History of Sports in the United States: 250 Years of Politics, Protest, People, and Play. New York: The New Press, 2008. Pp. 302. Notes and index. $26.95 cb. Ron Briley Ron Briley Sandia Preparatory School, Albuquerque, New Mexico Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal o…
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