Skip to main content
ACLS Humanities E-Book
Fulcrum logo

Share the story of what Open Access means to you

a graphic of a lock that is open, the universal logo for open access

University of Michigan needs your feedback to better understand how readers are using openly available ebooks. You can help by taking a short, privacy-friendly survey.

  1. Home
  2. Fight pictures: a history of boxing and early cinema

Fight pictures: a history of boxing and early cinema

Dan Streible c2008 © University of California Press
Restricted You do not have access to this book. How to get access.
Read Book
ISBN(s)
  • 9780520250741 (hardcover)
  • 9780520250758 (paper)
  • 9780520940581 (ebook)
Subject
  • Film & Media Studies
Citable Link
  • Table of Contents

  • Reviews

  • Stats

  • Frontmatter
  • List of Illustrations (page ix)
  • Foreword (page xiii)
  • Acknowledgments (page xvii)
  • Chronology (page xix)
  • PRELIMINARIES: History, Prizefighting, Early Cinema (page 1)
  • 1. THE SPORTING AND THEATRICAL SYNDICATE: Boxing Pictures and the Origins of Cinema, 1891-1896 (page 22)
  • 2. THE CORBETT-FITZSIMMONS FIGHT: Women at the Veriscope, 1897 (page 52)
  • 3. UNDER THE LIGHTS: Filming Ringside in the Jim Jeffries Era, 1899-1904 (page 96)
  • 4. FAKE FIGHT FILMS: S. Lubin of Philadelphia, 1897-1908 (page 126)
  • 5. FIGHT PICTURES IN THE NICKELODEON ERA: Miles Bros. of New York & San Francisco, 1905-1912 (page 164)
  • 6. JACK JOHNSON FILMS: Black Exhibition and White Suppression, 1908-1910 (page 195)
  • 7. JACK JOHNSON'S DECLINE: The Prizefight Film Ban, 1911-1915 (page 239)
  • 8. BOOTLEGGING: The Clandestine Traffic in Fight Pictures, 1916-1940 (page 266)
  • Filmography (page 291)
  • Notes (page 305)
  • Index (page 369)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
FHJ 22.1 (2010): 127 http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/film_history/v022/22.1.wiedenfeld.html
MOD 17.1 (Jan. 2010): 264-266 http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/modernism-modernity/v017/17.1.rhodes.html
187 views since July 06, 2018
ACLS Humanities E-Book logo

ACLS Humanities E-Book

  • About HEB
  • Contact HEB
  • For Librarians
  • Subscriptions

Powered by Fulcrum logo

  • About
  • Blog
  • Feedback
  • Contact
  • Contribute
  • Accessibility
  • Preservation
  • Privacy
  • Terms of Service
  • Log In
© ACLS Humanities E-Book 2020
x This site requires cookies to function correctly.