Grindon, Leger, <br/><br/>
Knockout :  the boxer and boxing in American cinema / 
Leger Grindon. 
 - Jackson :  University Press of Mississippi,  2011. 
 - 320 p. :  ill. 
<br/><br/>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. HKBU library 
<br/><br/> YT2025 M09 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781604739886 1604739886 9781604739893 1604739894 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Boxing films--History and criticism.--United States
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PN1995  / G866 K 2011