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Knockout: The Boxer and Boxing in American Cinema is the first book-length study of the Hollywood boxing film, a popular movie entertainment since the 1930s, that includes such classics as Million Dollar Baby, Rocky and Raging.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Grindon, Leger, 1949-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, ©2011.
Temas:
Boxing films > United States > History and criticism.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > Reference.
ART > Film & Video.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > History & Criticism.
Boxing films.
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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