Fight Pictures: A History of Boxing and Early Cinema

by Dan Streible

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520250753
• ISBN13: 9780520250758
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.0"