The Boxing Film
A Cultural and Transmedia History
Seiten
2020
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-1-9788-0136-3 (ISBN)
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-1-9788-0136-3 (ISBN)
From Edison's Leonard-Cushing Fight to The Joe Louis Story, Rocky and beyond, this book explores why boxing has so consistently fascinated cinema, and popular media culture more generally, by tracing how boxing movies inform the sport's meanings and uses from the late 19th century to the early 21st century.
As one of popular culture’s most popular arenas, sports are often the subject of cinematic storytelling. But boxing films are special. There are more movies about boxing, by a healthy margin, than any other sport, and boxing accompanied and aided the medium’s late nineteenth-century emergence as a popular mass entertainment. Many of cinema’s most celebrated directors—from Oscar Micheaux to Martin Scorsese—made boxing films. And while the production of other types of sports movies generally corresponds with the current popularity of their subject, boxing films continue to be made regularly even after the sport has wilted from its once-prominent position in the sports hierarchy of the United States. From Edison’s Leonard-Cushing Fight to The Joe Louis Story, Rocky, and beyond, this book explores why boxing has so consistently fascinated cinema and popular media culture by tracing how boxing movies inform the sport’s meanings and uses from the late nineteenth century to the early twenty-first century.
As one of popular culture’s most popular arenas, sports are often the subject of cinematic storytelling. But boxing films are special. There are more movies about boxing, by a healthy margin, than any other sport, and boxing accompanied and aided the medium’s late nineteenth-century emergence as a popular mass entertainment. Many of cinema’s most celebrated directors—from Oscar Micheaux to Martin Scorsese—made boxing films. And while the production of other types of sports movies generally corresponds with the current popularity of their subject, boxing films continue to be made regularly even after the sport has wilted from its once-prominent position in the sports hierarchy of the United States. From Edison’s Leonard-Cushing Fight to The Joe Louis Story, Rocky, and beyond, this book explores why boxing has so consistently fascinated cinema and popular media culture by tracing how boxing movies inform the sport’s meanings and uses from the late nineteenth century to the early twenty-first century.
TRAVIS VOGAN is an associate professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication and the Department of American Studies at the University of Iowa in Iowa City. His most recent book is ABC Sports: The Rise and Fall of Network Sports Television.
Introduction: The Boxing Film Over Time and Across Media
1. The Boxing Film through the Golden Age of Sports Media
2. St. Joe Louis, Surrounded by Films
3. TV Fighting and Fighting TV in the 1950s
4. Muhammad Ali, The Super Fight, and Closed-Circuit Exhibition
5. The 1970s, Rocky, and the Shadow of Ali
6. HBO Sports: Docu-Branding Boxing
7. Protecting Boxing with the Boxing Film
Conclusion: Handling the Rules
Acknowledgements
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 19.10.2020 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 7 b-w images |
| Verlagsort | New Brunswick NJ |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 4 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Kampfsport / Selbstverteidigung | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-9788-0136-X / 197880136X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-9788-0136-3 / 9781978801363 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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