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

Fight Pictures: A History of Boxing and Early Cinema (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780520250758)

Vendor: Dan Streible
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Format: Paperback
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Fight Pictures: A History of Boxing and Early Cinema by Streible, Dan

Fight Pictures: A History of Boxing and Early Cinema

$34.95
Fight Pictures: A History of Boxing and Early Cinema by Streible, Dan

Fight Pictures: A History of Boxing and Early Cinema

$34.95
Format: Paperback
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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. 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.

Author: Dan Streible
ISBN-10: 0520250753
ISBN-13: 9780520250758
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 04/11/2008
Pages: 424
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.33lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.10w x 1.04d
By Dan Streible
By Dan Streible
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Dan Streible is Associate Professor in the Department of Cinema Studies at New York University and Associate Director of its Moving Image Archiving and Preservation master's program. He is also director of the Orphan Film Symposium.

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