- Additional Authors
- American Council of Learned Societies.
- Found In
- ACLS Humanities E-Book. URL: http://www.humanitiesebook.org
- Description
- xix, 396 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Uniform Title
- ACLS Humanities E-Book.
- Subject
- Boxing films > United States > History and criticism
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes filmography (p. 291-303), bibliographical references (p. 305-367) and index
- Reproduction (note)
- Electronic text and image data.
- Contents
- Preliminaries: history, prizefighting, early cinema -- The sporting and theatrical syndicate: boxing pictures and the origins of cinema, 1891-1896 -- The Corbett-Fitzsimmons fight: women at the veriscope, 1897 -- Under the lights: filming ringside in the Jim Jeffries Era, 1899-1904 -- Fake fight films: S. Lubin of Philadelphia, 1897-1908 -- Fight pictures in the Nickelodeon Era: Miles Bros. of New York & San Francisco, 1905-1912 -- Jack Johnson films: black exhibition and white suppression, 1908-1910 -- Jack Johnson's decline: the prizefight film ban, 1911-1915 -- Bootlegging: the clandestine traffic in fight pictures, 1916-1940.
- OCLC
- (dli)HEB08056
- Author
Streible, Dan.
- Title
Fight pictures [electronic resource] : a history of boxing and early cinema / Dan Streible.
- Imprint
Berkeley : University of California Press, c2008.
- Series
ACLS Humanities E-Book.
- Bibliography
Includes filmography (p. 291-303), bibliographical references (p. 305-367) and index
- Reproduction
Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2010. Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) Mode of access: Intranet.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
American Council of Learned Societies.
- Found In:
ACLS Humanities E-Book. URL: http://www.humanitiesebook.org/
- Other Form:
Original 9780520250741 9780520250758 (DLC)2007043788