TY  - BOOK
AU  - Grindon,Leger
TI  - Knockout: the boxer and boxing in American cinema 
SN  - 9781604739886
AV  - PN1995 G866 K 2011
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Jackson
PB  - University Press of Mississippi
KW  - Boxing films
KW  - United States
KW  - History and criticism
N1  - 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; YT2025 M09
ER  -