Overview
- The first book to look at the sport of boxing in British cinema.
- Uses boxing to explore wider issues such as class, race, ethnicity and gender.
- Explores a wide variety of films, from auteur entries by Alfred Hitchcock to programme fillers by E.J. Fancey
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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 boxing’s 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 prismthrough which one can trace major historical shifts in the British film industry.
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Silent Treatment
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Front Matter
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The Sound Treatment
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Front Matter
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The Colour Treatment
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
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).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The British Boxing Film
Authors: Stephen Glynn
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74210-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-74209-6Published: 21 August 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-74212-6Published: 22 August 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-74210-2Published: 20 August 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 260
Number of Illustrations: 7 illustrations in colour
Topics: British Cinema and TV, Sport Science , British Culture, Cultural Studies