Boxing

Boxing on screen

The body as evidence: training, myth, spectacle and public history. This page connects the films to longer stories so the subject can be followed by idea and sporting context rather than by publication date.

Start with Rocky and When We Were Kings. Related reading: When We Were Kings: how a sports event becomes history on film, Rocky and the Training Montage as a Language of Sport, Sylvester Stallone and the Screen Myth of the Underdog Boxer.