Knockout the boxer and boxing in American cinema / Leger Grindon.

Author/creator Grindon, Leger, 1949-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoJackson : University Press of Mississippi,
Descriptionx, 320 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
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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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
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LCCN 2010041348
ISBN9781604739886 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN1604739886 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9781604739893 (ebook)
ISBN1604739894 (ebook)

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