The boxing filmography : American features, 1920-2003 / Frederick V. Romano.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Romano, Frederick V., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Boxing films--Catalogs.

Boxing films.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 p.)

Place of Publication:

Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The love affair between boxing and Hollywood began with the dawn of film. As early as the days of Chaplin, the ""boxing film"" had assumed its place as a subgenre, and over the decades it has taken the forms of biographies, dramas, romances, comedies, and even musicals and westerns. Such well known pictures as The Champ, Body and Soul, Don King: Only in America, Girl Fight, The Irish in Us, The Kid from Brooklyn, Somebody Up There Likes Me, Raging Bull, each of the Rocky movies and When We Were Kings are just a few examples of the feature films included in this filmography. Thoroughly research

Contents:

Cover; Acknowledgments; Table of Contents; Preface; The Filmography; Abbott & Costello Meet the Invisible Man; Against the Ropes; Ali; Battling Butler; Body and Soul (1947); Body and Soul (1981); Body and Soul (1998); Born to Fight; Bowery Blitzkrieg; Cain and Mabel; The Champ (1931); The Champ (1979); Champion; City for Conquest; City Lights; City of Bad Men; Conflict; The Contender; The Crowd Roars; Dempsey; Diggstown; Don King: Only in America; Eastside Westside; Ex-Champ; Fat City; The Fighter; Flesh and Blood; Gentleman Jim; Girlfight; Golden Boy; The Golden Gloves Story

The Great John L.The Great White Hope; The Great White Hype; The Greatest; Hard Times; The Harder They Fall; Heart of a Champion: The Ray Mancini Story; Heart Punch; Here Comes Mr. Jordan; Honey Boy; The Hurricane; The Irish in Us; The Iron Man ; Joe and Max; The Joe Louis Story; Joe Palooka, Champ; Keep Punching; The Kid from Brooklyn; The Kid from Kokomo; Kid Galahad ; Kid Nightingale; The Killers; Killer's Kiss; King for a Night; The Leather Pushers; The Life of Jimmy Dolan; Madison Square Garden; The Main Event; The Man from Down Under; Marciano; Matilda; The Milky Way; The Miracle Kid

Monkey on My BackMuhammad Ali: King of the World; Night and the City; Off Limits; Palooka; The Patent Leather Kid; Play It to the Bone; The Power of One; The Prize Fighter; The Prizefighter and the Lady; Raging Bull; Requiem for a Heavyweight; Ring of Passion; Ringside Maisie; Rocky; Rocky II; Rocky III; Rocky IV; Rocky V; Rocky Marciano; The Set-Up; Snake Eyes; Somebody Up There Likes Me; Spirit of Youth; The Square Jungle; The Sting II; Streets of Gold; The Superfight; They Made Me a Criminal; Triumph of the Spirit; Undisputed; When's Your Birthday; When We Were Kings; Winner Take All

Woman-WiseWonderman; Selected Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781476610580

1476610584