LEADER 04172nam 22006495 450 001 9910495245903321 005 20240627165140.0 010 $a9783030742102 010 $a3030742105 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-74210-2 035 $a(CKB)4100000012008373 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6710521 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6710521 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-74210-2 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000012008373 100 $a20210820d2021 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe British Boxing Film /$fby Stephen Glynn 205 $a1st ed. 2021. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2021. 215 $a1 online resource (258 pages) 311 08$a9783030742096 311 08$a3030742091 327 $aChapter 1- Introduction: The Rules of Boxing on Film -- Part I The Silent Treatment- Chapter 2-Opening Rounds: 1895 -1918 -- Chapter 3- The Plot Thickens: 1919 - 1928 -- Part II The Sound Treatment-Chapter 4 - Boxing Sound and Vision: 1929 -1939 -- Chapter 5- The Post-war Return: 1945-1960 -- Part III The Colour Treatment- Chapter 6 - Wider Representation: 1961-1999+ -- Chapter 7 - Final Rounds: 2000-Present -- Chapter 8 Conclusion: The Judges' Verdict . 330 $a"Stephen Glynn is the authority on sport in British cinema, and The British Boxing Film is a very welcome addition to his previous surveys of the people's game and the sport of kings. Glynn makes a highly persuasive case for the boxing picture as a site of significant cultural interest, especially through its engagement with class and gender politics. As relevant for social historians of sport as for film studies, The British Boxing Film is an undisputed knock-out winner." James Chapman, Professor of Film Studies at the University of Leicester and editor of the Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television. This book constitutes the first full volume dedicated to an academic analysis of the sport of boxing as depicted in British film. Through close textual analysis, production and reception histories and readings that establish social, cultural and political contexts, the book explores the ways in which prizefighters, amateur boxers, managers and supporters (from Regency gentry to East End gangsters) are represented on the British screen. Exploring a complex and controversial sport, it addresses not only the pain-versus-reward dilemma that boxing necessarily engenders but also the frequently censorious attitude of those in authority with boxing's social development facilitating a wider study around issues of class, gender and race, latterly contesting the whole notion of 'Britishness'. Varying in scope from Northern circuit comedies to London-based 'ladsploitation' films, from auteur entries by Alfred Hitchcock to programme fillers by E.J. Fancey, the boxing film also serves as a prism through which one can trace major historical shifts in the British film industry Stephen Glynn lectures in Film and Television at De Montfort University, UK. This volume completes a trilogy of sports genre studies for Palgrave, following on from The British Football Film (2018) and The British Horseracing Film (2019). 606 $aMotion pictures$zGreat Britain 606 $aSports$xHistory 606 $aEthnology$zGreat Britain 606 $aCulture 606 $aEthnology 606 $aBritish Film and TV 606 $aSport History 606 $aBritish Culture 606 $aRegional Cultural Studies 615 0$aMotion pictures 615 0$aSports$xHistory. 615 0$aEthnology 615 0$aCulture. 615 0$aEthnology. 615 14$aBritish Film and TV. 615 24$aSport History. 615 24$aBritish Culture. 615 24$aRegional Cultural Studies. 676 $a791.436579 676 $a791.436579 700 $aGlynn$b Stephen$0852640 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910495245903321 996 $aThe British Boxing Film$91903896 997 $aUNINA