Knockout: The Boxer and Boxing in American Cinema - Rilegato

Grindon, Leger

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 1604739886 ISBN 13: 9781604739886

Casa editrice: Univ Pr of Mississippi, 2011

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 1930s, that includes such classics as Million Dollar Baby, Rocky, and Raging Bull. The boxer stands alongside the cowboy, the gangster, and the detective as a character that shaped America's ideas of manhood. Leger Grindon relates the Hollywood boxing film to the literature of Jack London, Ernest Hemingway, and Clifford Odets; the influence of ring champions, particularly Joe Louis and Muhammad Ali; and controversies surrounding masculinity, race, and sports.

Knockout breaks new ground in film genre study by focusing on the fundamental dramatic conflicts uniting both documentary and fictional films with compelling social concerns. The boxing film portrays more than the rise and fall of a champion; it exposes the body in order to reveal the spirit. Not simply a brute, the screen boxer dramatizes conflicts and aspirations central to an American audience's experience. This book features chapters on the conventions of the boxing film, the history of the genre and its relationship to famous ring champions, and self-contained treatments of thirty-two individual films including a chapter devoted to Raging Bull.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Leger Grindor is a professor of film studies at Middlebury College, where he has taught since 1987.

Dalla seconda/terza di copertina:

A study of Hollywood's continuing fascination with the sweet science

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Univ Pr of Mississippi
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1604739886
• ISBN 13: 9781604739886
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 320