Knockout: the boxer and boxing in American cinema
Grindon, Leger
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 1930s, that includes such classics as Million Dollar Baby, Rocky and Raging.;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.
ক্যাটাগোরিগুলো:
সাল:
2011
প্রকাশক:
University Press of Mississippi
ভাষা:
english
ISBN 10:
1604739894
ISBN 13:
9781604739893
ফাইল:
PDF, 10.55 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2011