The Boxing Film : : A Cultural and Transmedia History / / Travis Vogan.
As one of popular culture’s most popular arenas, sports are often the subject of cinematic storytelling. But boxing films are special. There are more movies about boxing, by a healthy margin, than any other sport, and boxing accompanied and aided the medium’s late nineteenth-century emergence as a p...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2020] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Screening Sports
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (214 p.) :; 7 b-w images |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- The Boxing Film
- Introduction:
- 1 The Boxing Film through the Golden Age of Sports Media
- 2 St. Joe Louis, Surrounded by Films
- 3 TV Fighting and Fighting TV in the 1950s
- 4 Muhammad Ali, The Super Fight, and Closed-Circuit Exhibition
- 5 The 1970s, Rocky, and the Shadow of Ali
- 6 HBO Sports:
- 7 Protecting Boxing with the Boxing Film
- Conclusion:
- Filmography
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index