Fight Pictures: A History of Boxing and Early Cinema Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Fight Pictures: A History of Boxing and Early Cinema Book

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.Read More

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  • 0520250745
  • 9780520250741
  • D Streible
  • 13 May 2008
  • University of California Press
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 424
  • 1
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