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UNINA9910461256803321 |
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Grindon Leger <1949-> |
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Titolo |
Knockout [[electronic resource] ] : the boxer and boxing in American cinema / / Leger Grindon |
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Jackson, : University Press of Mississippi, 2011 |
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1-283-11659-6 |
9786613116598 |
1-60473-989-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (331 p.) |
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Boxing films - United States - History and criticism |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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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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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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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. |
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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 1930's, that includes such classics as Million Dollar Baby , Rocky , and Raging |
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UNINA9910450928403321 |
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Autore |
Kent Alicia A |
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African, Native, and Jewish American literature and the reshaping of Modernism [[electronic resource] /] / Alicia A. Kent |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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New York, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007 |
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1-281-36262-X |
9786611362621 |
0-230-60510-9 |
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[1st ed. 2007.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (241 p.) |
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American literature - 20th century - History and criticism |
Modernism (Literature) - United States |
American literature - African American authors - History and criticism |
American literature - Indian authors - History and criticism |
American literature - Jewish authors - History and criticism |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-212) and index. |
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Introduction -- African Americans: moving from caricatures to creators, Charles Chesnutt and Zora Neale Hurston -- Native Americans: moving from Primitive to Postmodern, Mourning Dove and D'Arcy McNickle -- Jewish Americans: moving from exile to authorship, Abraham Cahan and Anzia Yezierska. |
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This book examines literature by African, Native, and Jewish American novelists at the beginning of the twentieth century, a period of radical dislocation from homelands for these three ethnic groups as well as the period when such voices established themselves as central figures in the American literary canon. |
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