Knockout
Subtitle: the boxer and boxing in American cinema
By: Leger Grindon
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Jackson
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9781604739886; 9781604739893
Subjects: History and criticism; Boxing films
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Why the boxing film?: the meaningful structure of the boxing film genre; title: Gangsters, champions, and the history of the boxing film; title: "Down for the count": critique of the success ethic in the boxing film; title: "On the ropes": the conflict between assimilation and the indigenous community; title: Romance and the ring: gender conflict in the boxing film; title: "Hitting below the belt": violence, suffering, and male emotion; title: Body and soul: the conflict between the flesh and the spirit; title: Art and genre in Raging bull (1980); title: Epilogue: into the twenty-first century; title: Appendix 1: cycles/clusters of the boxing film genre; title: Appendix 2: boxing films cited.