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Can I read Knockout : The Boxer and Boxing in American Cinema on EtoBox?
Knockout : The Boxer and Boxing in American Cinema by Leger Grindon is a performing arts available to read on EtoBox.
What is Knockout : The Boxer and Boxing in American Cinema about?
<i>Knockout: The Boxer and Boxing in American Cinema</i> is the first book-length study of the Hollywood boxing film, a popular movie entertainment since the 1930s, that includes such classics as <i>Million Dollar Baby</i>, <i>Rocky</i>, and <i>Raging Bull</i>. The boxer stands alongside the cowboy, the gangster, and the detective as a character that shaped America’s ideas of manhood. Leger Grindon relates the Hollywood boxing film to the literature of Jack London, Ernest Hemingway, and Clifford
Who reads Knockout : The Boxer and Boxing in American Cinema?
It is typically read by artists, cooks, musicians and hobbyists working from how-to references.
Common subject areas: arts, cooking, music, crafts.
- Author
- Leger Grindon
- Publisher
- University Press of Mississippi
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781496858047
- Category
- performing arts
- Subjects
- Science, History, Popular Culture
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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