Knockout [[electronic resource] ] : the boxer and boxing in American cinema / / Leger Grindon
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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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| Pubblicazione: | Jackson, : University Press of Mississippi, 2011 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (331 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 791.43/658 |
| Soggetto topico: | Boxing films - United States - History and criticism |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Knockout |
| ISBN: | 1-283-11659-6 |
| 9786613116598 | |
| 1-60473-989-4 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910789535203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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