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The British boxing film / Stephen Glynn.

9783030742102 (electronic bk.)
3030742105 (electronic bk.)
9783030742096
3030742091

Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]

©2021

English

1 online resource : color illustrations

10.1007/978-3-030-74210-2 doi

PN1995.9.B69 G59 2021

791.43/6579

This book constitutes the first full volume dedicated to an academic analysis of the sport of boxing as depicted in British film. Through close textual analysis, production and reception histories and readings that establish social, cultural and political contexts, the book explores the ways in which prizefighters, amateur boxers, managers and supporters (from Regency gentry to East End gangsters) are represented on the British screen. Exploring a complex and controversial sport, it addresses not only the pain-versus-reward dilemma that boxing necessarily engenders but also the frequently censorious attitude of those in authority with boxings social development facilitating a wider study around issues of class, gender and race, latterly contesting the whole notion of Britishness. Varying in scope from Northern circuit comedies to London-based ladsploitation films, from auteur entries by Alfred Hitchcock to programme fillers by E.J. Fancey, the boxing film also serves as a prism through which one can trace major historical shifts in the British film industry Stephen Glynn lectures in Film and Television at De Montfort University, UK. This volume completes a trilogy of sports genre studies for Palgrave, following on from The British Football Film (2018) and The British Horseracing Film (2019).

Includes bibliographical references, filmography, and index.

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