Fight Pictures : A History of Boxing and Early Cinema

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The first filmed prizefight, Veriscope's Corbett-Fitzsimmons Fight (1897) became one of cinema's first major attractions, ushering in an era in which hugely successful boxing films helped transform a stigmatized sport into legitimate entertainment. Exploring a significant and fascinating p...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Streible, Dan
Otros Autores: Musser, Charles
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: CA : University of California Press, 2008.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Boxing films.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > General.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > Reference.
ART > Film & Video.
Boxing films > United States > History and criticism.
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Chronology; PRELIMINARIES: History, Prizefighting, Early Cinema; 1. THE SPORTING AND THEATRICAL SYNDICATE: Boxing Pictures and the Origins of Cinema, 1891-1896; 2. THE CORBETT-FITZSIMMONS FIGHT: Women at the Veriscope, 1897; 3. UNDER THE LIGHTS: Filming Ringside in the Jim Jeffries Era, 1899-1904; 4. FAKE FIGHT FILMS: S. Lubin of Philadelphia, 1897-1908; 5. FIGHT PICTURES IN THE NICKELODEON ERA: Miles Bros. of New York & San Francisco, 1905-1912; 6. JACK JOHNSON FILMS: Black Exhibition and White Suppression, 1908-1910.
  • 7. JACK JOHNSON'S DECLINE: The Prizefight Film Ban, 1911-19158. BOOTLEGGING: The Clandestine Traffic in Fight Pictures, 1916-1940; Filmography; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z.

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