Fight pictures a history of boxing and early cinema - Streible, Dan.; American Council of Learned Societies (Berkeley : University of California Press, 2008)
Preliminaries: history, prizefighting, early cinema -- The sporting and theatrical syndicate: boxing pictures and the origins of cinema, 18 91-1896 -- The Corbett-Fitzsimmons fight: women at the veriscope, 1897 -- Under the lights: filming ringside in the Jim Jeffries Era, 1899-190 4 -- Fake fight films: S. Lubin of Philadelphia, 1897-1908 -- Fight pic tures in the Nickelodeon Era: Miles Bros. of New York & San Francisco, 1905-1912 -- Jack Johnson films: black exhibition and white suppression , 1908-1910 -- Jack Johnson's decline: the prizefight film ban, 1911-19 15 -- Bootlegging: the clandestine traffic in fight pictures, 1916-1940 .
Includes filmography (p. 291-303), bibliographical references (p. 30 5-367) and index
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Keywords: Boxing films -- United States -- History and criticism