Research Catalog

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

320 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

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 Bull. The boxer stands alongside the cowboy, the gangster, and the detective as a character that shaped America's ideas of manhood. Leger Grindon relates the Hollywood boxing film to the literature of Jack London, Ernest Hemingway, and Clifford Odets; the influence of ring champions, particularly Joe Louis and Muhammad Ali; and controversies surrounding masculinity, race, and sports ... -- Book Description.

Subject

Boxing films > United States > History and criticism

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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.

ISBN

• 9781604739886 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 1604739886 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9781604739893 (ebook)
• 1604739894 (ebook)

LCCN

^^2010041348

OCLC

• 668403729
• SCSB-11829397

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library