1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910780640603321

Autore

Streible Dan

Titolo

Fight pictures [[electronic resource] ] : a history of boxing and early cinema / / Dan Streible

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2008

ISBN

1-282-36021-3

9786612360213

0-520-94058-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (418 p.)

Disciplina

791.43/6579

Soggetti

Boxing films - United States - History and criticism

Motion pictures - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-367) and index.

Includes filmography: p. 291-303.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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



more came to silent-era screens and became part of American popular culture.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910810451503321

Autore

Quinn-Sánchez Kathryn

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham : , : Lexington Books, , [2015]

©2015

ISBN

1-4985-0841-3

0-7391-9271-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (145 p.)

Disciplina

860.9/9287

Soggetti

Latin American literature - Women authors - History and criticism

Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

<span><span>This study examines works that address the spatial location of Latinidades, especially Latina, identity by subverting literary



history and literary theory through testimonio, hybrid genres, social activism, metafiction, and solidarity. </span></span>