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000331807 1001_ $$aBoddy, Kasia.
000331807 24510 $$aBoxing :$$ba cultural history /$$cKasia Boddy.
000331807 260__ $$aLondon :$$bReaktion,$$cc2008.
000331807 300__ $$a478 p. :$$bill. (some col.) ;$$c24 cm.
000331807 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 392-469) and index.
000331807 5050_ $$aIntroduction -- 1:  Classical golden age -- 2:  English golden age -- 3:  Pugilism and style -- 4:  Fighting, rightly understood -- 5:  Like any other profession -- 6:  Fresh hopes -- 7:  Sport of the future -- 8:  Save me, Jack Dempsey; save me, Joe Louis -- 9:  King of the hill, and further raging bulls -- Conclusion -- References -- Select bibliography -- Acknowledgements -- Photo acknowledgments -- Index.
000331807 520__ $$aFrom the Publisher:  Boxing is one of the oldest and most exciting of sports: its bruising and bloody confrontations have permeated Western culture since 3000 BC. During that period, there has hardly been a time in which young men, and sometimes women, did not raise their gloved or naked fists to one other. Throughout this history, potters, sculptors, painters, poets, novelists, cartoonists, song-writers, photographers and film-makers have been there to record and make sense of it all.  In her encyclopedic investigation, Kasia Boddy sheds new light on an elemental sports and struggle for dominance whose weapons are nothing more than fists. Boddy examines the shifting social, political and cultural resonances of this most visceral of sports, and shows how from Daniel Mendoza to Mike Tyson, boxers have embodied and enacted our anxieties about race, ethnicity, gender and sexuality. Looking afresh at everything from neoclassical sculpture to hip-hop lyrics, Boxing explores the way in which the history of boxing has intersected with the history of mass media, from cinema to radio to pay-per-view. The book also offers an intriguing new perspective on the work of such diverse figures as Henry Fielding, Spike Lee, Charlie Chaplin, Philip Roth, James Joyce, Mae West, Bertolt Brecht, and Charles Dickens.  An all-encompassing study, Boxing ultimately reveals to us just how and why boxing has mattered so much to so many.
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