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Boxing: A Cultural History
by
Kasia Boddy
Boxing is one of the oldest and most exciting of sports: its bruising and bloody confrontations have permeated Western culture since 3000 BC. During that period, there has hardly been a time in which young men, and sometimes women, did not raise their gloved or naked fists to one other. Throughout this history, potters, sculptors, painters, poets, novelists, cartoonists, s...more
Paperback, 480 pages
Published
September 15th 2009
by Reaktion Books
(first published April 16th 2008)
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This is not so much a cultural history, in the conventional senses of ideas and practices, of the quotidian bases of boxing, or of boxing's various zeitgeists, as a history of cultural representations of boxing. Boddy's grasp of the range of contexts within which these various representations were produced is impressive: although she is understandably stronger on USA contexts (her specialist area as a literature scholar), her grasp of contexts as diverse as ancient Greece and Regency England ind...more
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If you are interested in the sport at all - this is a keeper!
I read this for research, but it is well-done and gives a fun overview of how boxing has been used to represent different struggles through art, books, film, music, and cultural artifacts in general. Everything from Joe Louis' influence on a young Malcolm X to boxing and Brecht's plays, to Futurists use of the boxer in their art, to Boxing in Film Noir. It's also chock full of high quality color reproductions of many of the visual works as well. The back has a filmography with dates. Nice resour...more
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