Fight pictures : a history of boxing and early cinema / Dan Streible.

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 p...

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Main Author: Streible, Dan
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Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2008.
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505 0 |a Preliminaries: history, prizefighting, early cinema -- The sporting and theatrical syndicate: boxing pictures and the origins of cinema, 1891-1896 -- The Corbett-Fitzsimmons fight: women at the veriscope, 1897 -- Under the lights: filming ringside in the Jim Jeffries Era, 1899-1904 -- Fake fight films: S. Lubin of Philadelphia, 1897-1908 -- Fight pictures in the Nickelodeon Era: Miles Bros. of New York & San Francisco, 1905-1912 -- Jack Johnson films: black exhibition and white suppression, 1908-1910 -- Jack Johnson's decline: the prizefight film ban, 1911-1915 -- Bootlegging: the Clandestine traffic in fight pictures, 1916-1940. 
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