Knockout: The Boxer and Boxing in American Cinema

by Leger Grindon

Book Overview

Knockout: The Boxer and Boxing in American Cinema is the first book-length study of the Hollywood boxing film, a popular movie entertainment since the 1930s, that includes such classics as Million Dollar Baby, Rocky, and Raging Bull. The boxer stands alongside the cowboy, the gangster, and the detective as a character that shaped America's ideas of manhood. Leger Grindon relates the Hollywood boxing film to the literature...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1617038296
• ISBN13: 9781617038297
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"