The Boxing Filmography
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-0-7864-1793-3 (ISBN)
The love affair between boxing and Hollywood began with the dawn of film. As early as the days of Chaplin, the "boxing film" had assumed its place as a subgenre, and over the decades it has taken the forms of biographies, dramas, romances, comedies, and even musicals and westerns. Such well known pictures as The Champ, Body and Soul, Don King: Only in America, Girl Fight, The Irish in Us, The Kid from Brooklyn, Somebody Up There Likes Me, Raging Bull, each of the Rocky movies and When We Were Kings are just a few examples of the feature films included in this filmography.
Thoroughly researched, this work examines 98 boxing films from the 1920s through 2003. Each entry provides basic filmographic data (the film's studio, its genre, its length, cast and credits); a detailed synopsis of the film; illuminating commentary on the boxing sequences; and excerpts from contemporary reviews. Most entries also summarize the making of the film, with particular attention to the training of the actors for the boxing scenes. The filmography also includes information on studio publicity releases and advertisements, press books and exhibitor campaign materials for each film.
Boxing historian Frederick V. Romano lives in White Plains, New York.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
Abbott & Costello Meet the Invisible Man
Against the Ropes
Ali
Battling Butler
Body and Soul (1947)
Body and Soul (1981)
Body and Soul (1998)
Born to Fight
Bowery Blitzkrieg
Cain and Mabel
The Champ (1931)
The Champ (1979)
Champion
City for Conquest
City Lights
City of Bad Men
Conflict
The Contender
The Crowd Roars
Dempsey
Diggstown
Don King: Only in America
Eastside Westside
Ex-Champ
Fat City
The Fighter
Flesh and Blood
Gentleman Jim
Girlfight
Golden Boy
The Golden Gloves Story
The Great John L.
The Great White Hope
The Great White Hype
The Greatest
Hard Times
The Harder They Fall
Heart of a Champion: The Ray Mancini Story
Heart Punch
Here Comes Mr. Jordan
Honey Boy
The Hurricane
The Irish in Us
The Iron Man (1931)
Joe and Max
The Joe Louis Story
Joe Palooka, Champ
Keep Punching
The Kid from Brooklyn
The Kid from Kokomo
Kid Galahad (1937)
Kid Nightingale
The Killers
Killer's Kiss
King for a Night
The Leather Pushers
The Life of Jimmy Dolan
Madison Square Garden
The Main Event
The Man from Down Under
Marciano
Matilda
The Milky Way
The Miracle Kid
Monkey on My Back
Muhammad Ali: King of the World
Night and the City
Off Limits
Palooka
The Patent Leather Kid
Play It to the Bone
The Power of One
The Prize Fighter
The Prizefighter and the Lady
Raging Bull
Requiem for a Heavyweight
Ring of Passion
Ringside Maisie
Rocky
Rocky II
Rocky III
Rocky IV
Rocky V
Rocky Marciano
The Set-Up
Snake Eyes
Somebody Up There Likes Me
Spirit of Youth
The Square Jungle
The Sting II
Streets of Gold
The Superfight
They Made Me a Criminal
Triumph of the Spirit
Undisputed
When’s Your Birthday
When We Were Kings
Winner Take All
Woman-Wise
Wonderman
Selected Bibliography
Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 30.11.2004 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | notes, bibliography, index |
| Verlagsort | Jefferson, NC |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 178 x 254 mm |
| Gewicht | 445 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Kampfsport / Selbstverteidigung | |
| Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lexikon / Chroniken | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-7864-1793-5 / 0786417935 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-7864-1793-3 / 9780786417933 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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