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Knockout : the boxer and boxing in American cinema
- Title
- Knockout : the boxer and boxing in American cinema / Leger Grindon.
- Author
- Grindon, Leger, 1949-
- Publication
- Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c2011.
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Details
- Description
- x, 320 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
- Subject
- Boxing films > United States > History and criticism
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- MFL 11-8055
- ISBN
- 9781604739886 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 1604739886 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2010041348
- OCLC
- YBP 2010041348
- Author
- Grindon, Leger, 1949-
- Title
- Knockout : the boxer and boxing in American cinema / Leger Grindon.
- Imprint
- Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c2011.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- MFL 11-8055