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UNINA9910456822503321 |
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Autore |
Streible Dan |
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Fight pictures [[electronic resource] ] : a history of boxing and early cinema / / Dan Streible |
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2008 |
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1-282-36021-3 |
9786612360213 |
0-520-94058-X |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (418 p.) |
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Boxing films - United States - History and criticism |
Motion pictures - History and criticism |
Electronic books. |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-367) and index. |
Includes filmography: p. 291-303. |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Chronology -- Preliminaries: History, Prizefighting, Early Cinema -- 1. The Sporting and Theatrical Syndicate: Boxing Pictures and the Origins of Cinema, 1891-1896 -- 2. The Corbett-Fitzsimmons Fight: Women at the Veriscope, 1897 -- 3. Under the Lights: Filming Ringside in the Jim Jeffries Era, 1899-1904 -- 4. Fake Fight Films: S. Lubin of Philadelphia, 1897-1908 -- 5. Fight Pictures in the Nickelodeon Era: Miles Bros. of New York & San Francisco, 1905-1912 -- 6. Jack Johnson Films: Black Exhibition and White Suppression, 1908-1910 -- 7. Jack Johnson's Decline: The Prizefight Film Ban, 1911-1915 -- 8. Bootlegging The Clandestine Traffic in Fight Pictures, 1916-1940 -- Filmography -- Notes -- Index |
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The first filmed prizefight, Veriscope's Corbett-Fitzsimmons Fight (1897) became one of cinema's first major attractions, ushering in an era in which hugely successful boxing films helped transform a stigmatized sport into legitimate entertainment. Exploring a significant and fascinating period in the development of modern sports and media, Fight Pictures is the first work to chronicle the mostly forgotten |
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story of how legitimate bouts, fake fights, comic sparring matches, and more came to silent-era screens and became part of American popular culture. |
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UNICAMPANIAVAN00067066 |
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Autore |
Ferris, Michael C. |
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Linear programming with MATLAB / Michael C. Ferris, Olvi L. Mangasarian, Stephen J. Wright |
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Philadelphia, : SIAM, 2007 |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Mangasarian, Olvi L. |
Wright, Stephen J. |
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68-XX - Computer science [MSC 2020] |
90-XX - Operations research, mathematical programming [MSC 2020] |
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