Knockout
Grindon, Leger, 1949-
Knockout the boxer and boxing in American cinema / [electronic resource] : Leger Grindon. - Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2011. - x, 320 p.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2011.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Boxing films--History and criticism.--United States
Electronic books.
PN1995.9.B69 / G75 2011eb
791.43/658
Knockout the boxer and boxing in American cinema / [electronic resource] : Leger Grindon. - Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2011. - x, 320 p.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2011.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Boxing films--History and criticism.--United States
Electronic books.
PN1995.9.B69 / G75 2011eb
791.43/658