Fight Pictures: A History of Boxing and Early Cinema by Dan Streible

Fight Pictures: A History of Boxing and Early Cinema

Dan Streible

396 pages paperback 2008

2 editions

informative reflective medium-paced
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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...

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