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Knockout: The Boxer and Boxing in American Cinema

Knockout: The Boxer and Boxing in American Cinema

Grindon, Leger

Hardcover

BoxingFilm StudiesMen's Studies

ISBN10: 1604739886
ISBN13: 9781604739886
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: Apr 20 2011
Pages: 320
Weight: 1.50
Height: 1.20 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
A study of Hollywood's continuing fascination with the sweet science The boxer stands alongside the cowboy, the gangster, and the detective as a character that shaped America's ideas of manhood. 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. 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. Leger Grindon, Middlebury, Vermont, is a professor of film studies at Middlebury College where he has taught since 1987. He is the author of Shadows on the Past: Studies in the Historical Fiction Film and Hollywood Romantic Comedy: Conventions, History, Controversies.

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