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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Boddy, Kasia.     Subjects     Boxing -- Social aspects -- History.     Boxing -- History.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Boddy, Kasia.       by title:      Boxing : a cultural ...         MARC Display

Boxing : a cultural history / Kasia Boddy. by Boddy, Kasia. London : Reaktion, c2008. Subjects Boxing -- Social aspects -- History.   Boxing -- History. ISBN:  9781861893697 (hbk.) : 1861893698 (hbk.) Description:  478 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm. Contents:  The classical golden age -- The English golden age -- Pugilism and style -- 'Fighting, rightly understood' -- 'Like any other profession' -- Fresh hopes -- Sport of the future -- Save me, Jack Dempsey; save me, Joe Louis -- King of the hill, and further raging bulls. Requests:  0 Summary:  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.--From publisher description.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status Due Date   Hawaii State Library Art, Music & Recreation 796.8309 Bo Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Kailua Public Library Adult Nonfiction 796.8309 Bo Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Kapolei Public Library Adult Nonfiction 796.8309 Bo Lost 08/18/2016 Add Copy to MyList Thelma Parker Memorial P/S Library Adult Nonfiction 796.8309 Bo Checked In   Add Copy to MyList

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