Fight Pictures - A History of Boxing and Early Cinema

1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-520-25075-8
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 424 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 206 mm, Gewicht: 602 g

The first filmed prizefight, Veriscope's Corbett-Fitzsimmons Fight (1897) became one of cinema's first major attractions, ushering in an era in which hugely successful boxing films helped transform a stigmatized sport into legitimate entertainment. Exploring a significant and fascinating period in the development of modern sports and media, Fight Pictures is the first work to chronicle the mostly forgotten story of how legitimate bouts, fake fights, comic sparring matches, and more came to silent-era screens and became part of American popular culture.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Streible, Dan

Weitere Mitwirkende

Musser, Charles

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio
• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Sport Kampfsportarten, Selbstverteidigung

Über Autor(innen)

Dan Streible is Associate Professor in the Department of Cinema Studies at New York University and Associate Director of its Moving Image Archiving and Preservation master's program. He is also director of the Orphan Film Symposium.