Fight Pictures: A History of Boxing and Early Cinema

Neil Young KINO! 10

Heroes of the Fist. Dan Streible, Fight Pictures: A History of Boxing and Early Cinema, University of California Press, 2008

“There is nothing on the screen this week, there is nothing anywhere this week, that for implications and sheer electric excitement can come up to the pictures of the Joe Louis-Max Schmeling fight, run off at the Yankee Stadium in New York, the night of 19 June... These pictures of the fight must be among the best ever made; they are a night with the gladiators, a round trip to Mars, they are p...