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UNINA9910780640603321 |
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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 |
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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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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 story of how legitimate bouts, fake fights, comic sparring matches, and |
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more came to silent-era screens and became part of American popular culture. |
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UNINA9910810451503321 |
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Autore |
Quinn-Sánchez Kathryn |
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Identity in Latin American and Latina literature : the struggle to self-define in a global era where space, capitalism, and power rule / / Kathryn Quinn-Sánchez |
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Lanham : , : Lexington Books, , [2015] |
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©2015 |
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1-4985-0841-3 |
0-7391-9271-X |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (145 p.) |
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Latin American literature - Women authors - History and criticism |
Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature |
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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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Contents; Introduction; 1: Reject; Chapter One: Rejecting Eden's Limits/Choosing Freedom; Chapter Two: Rejecting Labels/Choosing Hope through Self-Definition; Chapter Three: Rejecting Failed Hegemony; Chapter Four: Rejecting National Mores/There Is No Country for Lesbian Latinas; 2: Contest; Chapter Five: Contesting Love as Defined by Popular Culture/Redefining Self-Love; Chapter Six: Contesting the Nation-State's Abuse of Power; Chapter Seven: Contesting Traditional Patriarchal Definitions of Theory |
Chapter Eight: Contesting Anglo-Feminism and Academic Space/Redefining the Academe from Within3: Subvert; Chapter Nine: Subverting Patriarchy, the Nation-State, and Redefining Society; Chapter Ten: Subverting HIStory: Creating Spaces of Solidarity, Equality, and Freedom; Selected Bibliography; Index; About the Author |
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<span><span>This study examines works that address the spatial location of Latinidades, especially Latina, identity by subverting literary |
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history and literary theory through testimonio, hybrid genres, social activism, metafiction, and solidarity. </span></span> |
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