[Commlist] New Book - The British Boxing Film

Colleagues may be interested in this new publication from Palgrave 
Macmillan - */The British Boxing Film /*by Stephen Glynn.

Following on from /The British Football Film/ (2018) and /The British 
Horseracing Film/ (2019), this monograph completes a trilogy on sport as 
depicted in British film history and should, like its predecessors, be 
of particular relevance to module reading lists in Cultural, Film, and 
Sports Studies.

*Book Description: *

This book constitutes the first full volume dedicated to an academic 
analysis of the sport of boxing as depicted in British film. Through 
close textual analysis, production and reception histories and readings 
that establish social, cultural and political contexts, the book 
explores the ways in which prizefighters, amateur boxers, managers and 
supporters (from Regency gentry to East End gangsters) are represented 
on the British screen. Exploring a complex and controversial sport, it 
addresses not only the pain-versus-reward dilemma that boxing 
necessarily engenders, but also the frequently censorious attitude of 
those in authority, with boxing’s social development facilitating a 
wider study around issues of class, gender and race, latterly contesting 
the whole notion of ‘Britishness’. Varying in scope from Northern 
circuit comedies to London-based ‘ladsploitation’ films, from auteur 
entries by Alfred Hitchcock to programme fillers by E.J. Fancey, the 
boxing film also serves as a prism through which one can trace major 
historical shifts in the British film industry.

“Stephen Glynn is the authority on sport in British cinema, and /The 
British Boxing Film/ is a very welcome addition to his previous surveys 
of the people’s game and the sport of kings. Glynn makes a highly 
persuasive case for the boxing picture as a site of significant cultural 
interest, especially through its engagement with class and gender 
politics. As relevant for social historians of sport as for film 
studies, /The British Boxing Film/ is an undisputed knock-out winner.”  
- James Chapman, Professor of Film Studies at the University of 
Leicester and editor of the /Historical Journal of Film, Radio and 
Television./

Further details are available at the Palgrave Macmillan website: 
https://www.palgrave.com/gb/book/9783030742096 
<https://www.palgrave.com/gb/book/9783030742096>


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