20th century america culture
20th century american film history
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american cinema
american film history
Author_Dan Streible
bob fitzsimmons
bootlegging
boxing match
boxing pictures
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championship prizefight
cinema
documentary film
early cinema
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fighting
film
film history
film studies
first feature film
historical
jack johnson
james j corbett
jim jeffries
latham loop
movie history
movie studies
movies
national film registry
nickelodeon films
prizefighting
retrospective
sports
sports history
the corbett fitzsimmons fight
Product details
- ISBN 9780520250758
- Weight: 590g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 11 Apr 2008
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: 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.
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.
