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Knockout : the boxer and boxing in American cinema / Leger Grindon.
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TextPublication details: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2011.Description: 320 p. : illISBN: - 9781604739886
- 1604739886
- 9781604739893
- 1604739894
- PN1995 G866 K 2011
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MATRIX Library General Eng/FL.3 | General Books | PN1995 G866 K 2011 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | C.1 | Available | 1000363072 |
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
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