- Description
- 1 online resource (x, 320 p.) : ill.
- Uniform Title
- Knockout (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Knockout (Online)
- Subject
- Boxing films > United States > History and criticism
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- 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.
- LCCN
- 2010041348
- OCLC
- ssj0000523735
- Author
Grindon, Leger, 1949-
- Title
Knockout [electronic resource] : the boxer and boxing in American cinema / Leger Grindon.
- Imprint
Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c2011.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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