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Product details:
- Publisher Rutgers University Press
- Date of Publication 16 October 2020
- Number of Volumes Paperback
- ISBN 9781978801356
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages208 pages
- Size 229x152x18 mm
- Weight 3 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 7 b-w images 104
Categories
Cinema, film, TV, radio
Sports, physical education in general
Martial arts, self-defense sports
Other branches of performing arts
Social economics
Cinema, film, TV, radio (charity campaign)
Sports, physical education in general (charity campaign)
Martial arts, self-defense sports (charity campaign)
Other branches of performing arts (charity campaign)
Social economics (charity campaign)
Long description:
As one of popular culture's most popular arenas, sports are often the subject of cinematic storytelling. But boxing films are special. There are more movies about boxing, by a healthy margin, than any other sport, and boxing accompanied and aided the medium's late nineteenth-century emergence as a popular mass entertainment. Many of cinema's most celebrated directors—from Oscar Micheaux to Martin Scorsese—made boxing films. And while the production of other types of sports movies generally corresponds with the current popularity of their subject, boxing films continue to be made regularly even after the sport has wilted from its once-prominent position in the sports hierarchy of the United States. From Edison's Leonard-Cushing Fight to The Joe Louis Story, Rocky, and beyond, this book explores why boxing has so consistently fascinated cinema and popular media culture by tracing how boxing movies inform the sport's meanings and uses from the late nineteenth century to the early twenty-first century.
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Table of Contents:
Introduction: The Boxing Film Over Time and Across Media
1. The Boxing Film through the Golden Age of Sports Media
2. St. Joe Louis, Surrounded by Films
3. TV Fighting and Fighting TV in the 1950s
4. Muhammad Ali, The Super Fight, and Closed-Circuit Exhibition
5. The 1970s, Rocky, and the Shadow of Ali
6. HBO Sports: Docu-Branding Boxing
7. Protecting Boxing with the Boxing Film
Conclusion: Handling the Rules
Acknowledgements
Index
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1. The Boxing Film through the Golden Age of Sports Media
2. St. Joe Louis, Surrounded by Films
3. TV Fighting and Fighting TV in the 1950s
4. Muhammad Ali, The Super Fight, and Closed-Circuit Exhibition
5. The 1970s, Rocky, and the Shadow of Ali
6. HBO Sports: Docu-Branding Boxing
7. Protecting Boxing with the Boxing Film
Conclusion: Handling the Rules
Acknowledgements
Index
