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Knockout : the boxer and boxing in American cinema / Leger Grindon.
Van Pelt Library PN1995.9.B69 G75 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Grindon, Leger, 1949-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Boxing films--United States--History and criticism.
- Boxing films.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- x, 320 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2011]
- Contents:
- Why the boxing film?: the meaningful structure of the boxing film genre
- Gangsters, champions, and the history of the boxing film
- "Down for the count": critique of the success ethic in the boxing film
- "On the ropes": the conflict between assimilation and the indigenous community
- Romance and the ring: gender conflict in the boxing film
- "Hitting below the belt": violence, suffering, and male emotion
- Body and soul: the conflict between the flesh and the spirit
- Art and genre in Raging bull (1980)
- Epilogue: into the twenty-first century
- Appendix 1: cycles/clusters of the boxing film genre
- Appendix 2: boxing films cited.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781604739886
- 1604739886
- 9781604739893
- 1604739894
- OCLC:
- 668403729
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