Fight pictures : a history of boxing and early cinema / Dan Streible.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Streible, Dan.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Boxing films--United States--History and criticism.

Boxing films.

United States.

Physical Description:

xix, 396 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, [2008]

Summary:

The first filmed prizefight, Veriscope's Corbett-Fitzsimmons Fight (1897), became one of cinema's earliest major attractions and ushered in an era in which hugely successful boxing films helped transform a stigmatized sport into legitimate entertainment. Exploring a significant and fascinating period in the development of modern sports and media, Fight Pictures is the first work to chronicle the mostly forgotten story of how legitimate bouts, fake fights, comic sparring matches, and more came to silent-era movie screens and became part of American popular culture.

Contents:

Preliminaries: History, Prizefighting, Early Cinema 1

1 The Sporting and Theatrical Syndicate: Boxing Pictures and the Origins of Cinema, 1891-1896 22

2 The Corbett-Fitzsimmons Fight: Women at the Veriscope, 1897 52

3 Under the Lights: Filming Ringside in the Jim Jeffries Era, 1899-1904 96

4 Fake Fight Films: S. Lubin of Philadelphia, 1897-1908 126

5 Fight Pictures in the Nickelodeon Era: Miles Bros. of New York & San Francisco, 1905-1912 164

6 Jack Johnson Films: Black Exhibition and White Suppression, 1908-1910 195

7 Jack Johnson's Decline: The Prizefight Film Ban, 1911-1915 239

8 Bootlegging: The Clandestine Traffic in Fight Pictures, 1916-1940 266.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-367) and index.

Includes filmography: pages 291-303.

ISBN:

9780520250741

0520250745

9780520250758

0520250753

OCLC:

176861687