The Boxing Film: A Cultural and Transmedia History

by Travis Vogan

Book Overview

As one of popular culture's most popular arenas, sports are often the subject of cinematic storytelling. But boxing films are special. There are more movies about boxing, by a healthy margin, than any other sport, and boxing accompanied and aided the medium's late 19th century emergence as a popular mass entertainment. Many of cinema's most celebrated directors--from Oscar Micheaux to Martin Scorsese--made boxing films. And while the production of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1978801351
• ISBN13: 9781978801356
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher