the boxer and boxing in American cinema Grindon, Leger creator text bibliography msu Jackson University Press of Mississippi 2011 monographic eng

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320 p. : ill. 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 Leger Grindon. YT2025 M09 Boxing films United States History and criticism PN1995 G866 K 2011 9781604739886 1604739886 9781604739893 1604739894 SDU 101004