Fight pictures : a history of boxing and early cinema / Dan Streible.

Berkeley : University of California Press, [2008], ©2008.

xix, 396 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Preliminaries: history, prizefighting, early cinema -- The sporting and theatrical syndicate: boxing pictures and the origins of cinema, 1891-1896 -- The Corbett-Fitzsimmons fight: women at the veriscope, 1897 -- Under the lights: filming ringside in the Jim Jeffries Era, 1899-1904 -- Fake fight films: S. Lubin of Philadelphia, 1897-1908 -- Fight pictures 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, 1911-1915 -- Bootlegging: the clandestine traffic in fight pictures, 1916-1940.

Includes filmography (p. 291-303), bibliographical references (p. 305-367) and index

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