Smash Hit : Race, Crime, and Culture in Boxing Films - Rilegato

David Curcio

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ISBN 10: 1956450815 ISBN 13: 9781956450811

Casa editrice: Armin Lear Press, 2025

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David Curcio has written articles and reviews on boxing, film, and art for websites and magazines including Ringside Seat, the Film Noir Foundation, Bookslut, HorrorBuzz, and The Arts Fuse. He also writes a regular column on boxing and cinema for the website The Fight City. His essay on Second-wave feminism in the work of British author John Wyndham was featured in the coffee table book Dangerous Visions and New Worlds: Radical Science Fiction, 1950–1985.

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Cinema emerged alongside the rules that ushered in boxing’s modern age and the “squared circle” proved the ideal stage for cinematic display. The public had its first taste of the new medium in 1894 through a heavyweight bout, recognized today as the world’s first feature film.As the two attractions fast-grew into the country’s most popular entertainments, nascent Hollywood studios were quick to spot an opening for a surefire combo. Like a snap-jab to the teeth, the boxing film emerged as a popular genre wherein the fighter assumed his place among the private dicks, rebel cops, and desperate underdogs mired in America’s expanding urban landscape.Devoting equal time to both mediums, Smash Hit: Race, Crime, and Culture in Boxing Films uses twenty films as the basis of a hard-nosed exploration as to how the genre held a bloody mirror to twentieth century America’s most prominent social anxieties, elucidating two conjoined mediums that serve as bellwether to an ever-shifting cultural zeitgeist.“David Curcio’s Smash Hit is a first-round knockout filled with strong writing and deep insight.” -Bob Batchelor, author of Roadhouse Blues: Morrison, the Doors, and the Death Days of the Sixties and Stan Lee: A Life "David Curcio's absorbing, fascinating book sent me down a rabbit hole of so many memorable movies....and Smash Hit belongs in the company of the best of them." -Donald McRae, The Guardian "Smash Hit is not about the sport of boxing so much as a view of American society in the context of boxing culture, film history, and Hollywood gossip. An entertaining, informative, lively read.” -Glen Sharp, author of Punching in the Shadows

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• Editore: Armin Lear Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2025
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1956450815
• ISBN 13: 9781956450811
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 174
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