Fight Pictures - A History of Boxing and Early Cinema (Paperback)

"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"

General

Imprint:	University of California Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	April 2008
First published:	April 2008
Authors:	Dan Streible
Foreword by:	Charles Musser
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	424
ISBN-13:	978-0-520-25075-8
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Films, cinema > General Books > Sport & Leisure > Sports & outdoor recreation > Combat sports & self-defence > Boxing
LSN:	0-520-25075-3
Barcode:	9780520250758

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