Boxing: A Cultural History by Boddy, Kasia
Boxing: A Cultural History by Boddy, Kasia

Boxing: A Cultural History

Throughout history, potters, sculptors, painters, poets, novelists, cartoonists, song-writers, photographers, and filmmakers have recorded and tried to...
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Author: Kasia Boddy
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Boxing: A Cultural History by Boddy, Kasia

Boxing: A Cultural History

$58.26
Boxing: A Cultural History by Boddy, Kasia

Boxing: A Cultural History

$58.26
Author: Kasia Boddy
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
Throughout history, potters, sculptors, painters, poets, novelists, cartoonists, song-writers, photographers, and filmmakers have recorded and tried to make sense of boxing. From Daniel Mendoza to Mike Tyson, boxers have embodied and enacted our anxieties about race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality. In her encyclopedic investigation of the shifting social, political, and cultural resonances of this most visceral of sports, Kasia Boddy throws new light on an elemental struggle for dominance whose weapons are nothing more than fists.

Looking afresh at everything from neoclassical sculpture to hip-hop lyrics, Boddy explores the ways in which the history of boxing has intersected with the history of mass media. Boddy pulls no punches, looking to the work of such diverse figures as Henry Fielding and Spike Lee, Charlie Chaplin and Philip Roth, James Joyce and Mae West, Bertolt Brecht and Charles Dickens in an all-encompassing study that tells us just how and why boxing has mattered so much to so many.

Author: Kasia Boddy
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Published: 08/01/2019
Pages: 576
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 2.00lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.80w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9781789140514

About the Author
Kasia Boddy is a lecturer in the Faculty of English at the University of Cambridge and has published widely on British and American literature and film. She is the author of The American Short Story Since 1950 and Geranium, the latter also published by Reaktion Books, and the editor of The New Penguin Book of American Short Stories.


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