"This compelling book forces us to rethink the history of cinema.
Dan Streible's thought-provoking rediscovery of an entire lost
genre of hundreds of early films reminds us how much we still do
not know about the development of American movie culture. The fact
that only a fraction of these forgotten films survive, and those
mostly in fragments, makes this historical account of them all the
more valuable."--Martin Scorsese
"Men in skimpy clothing engaged in the manly art of beating on each
other became the cinema's very first movie stars. With masterful
historical research in both film and sport history, Dan Streible's
book provides the definitive account of the complex fascination
these first films exerted, as prizefighting collided with early
cinema and staged new battles over gender, race and class."--Tom
Gunning, author of "D. W. Griffith and the Origins of American
Narrative Film," and "The Films of Fritz Lang"
"'Sporting' men and curious women, slumming elites and
working-class laborers, nativists and European immigrants, Great
White Hopes and insurgent African Americans--Dan Streible's
meticulous research brings to life the dynamic, overlapping, and
often contentious public spheres that fight films pull into focus.
Written in smart and straightforward prose, "Fight Pictures"
combines new critical insights about early cinema's aesthetics of
display and struggles for cultural legitimacy with the social
histories of boxing and American modernity."--Jacqueline Stewart,
author of "Migrating to the Movies: Cinema and Black Urban
Modernity"
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