The Boxing Film – A Cultural and Transmedia History Vogan Paperback
The Boxing FilmA Cultural and Transmedia History\nAuthor(s): Travis Vogan\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Rutgers University Press, United States\nImprint: Rutgers University Press\nISBN-13: 9781978801356, 978-1978801356\nSynopsis\nAs 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 directorsfrom Oscar Micheaux to Martin Scorsesemade 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, Ro.
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