Knockout the boxer and boxing in American cinema /
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| Language: | English |
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Jackson :
University Press of Mississippi,
2011.
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Table of Contents:
- Why the boxing film?: the meaningful structure of the boxing film genre
- Gangsters, champions, and the history of the boxing film
- "Down for the count": critique of the success ethic in the boxing film
- "On the ropes": the conflict between assimilation and the indigenous community
- Romance and the ring: gender conflict in the boxing film
- "Hitting below the belt": violence, suffering, and male emotion
- Body and soul: the conflict between the flesh and the spirit
- Art and genre in Raging bull (1980)
- Epilogue: into the twenty-first century
- Appendix 1: cycles/clusters of the boxing film genre
- Appendix 2: boxing films cited.