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- Title
Sports of Spectatorship: Boxing Women of Color in Girlfight and Beyond.
- Authors
FOJAS, CAMILLA
- Abstract
The article discusses the depiction of minority women boxers in motion pictures. The author comments on how the popularity of women in boxing has changed motion pictures focusing on boxing and discusses how the motion picture "Girlfight" presents a different image of minority women by showing them gaining a greater social position through participation in sports dominated by men. The role of women as passive subjects of male attention in the motion picture "Raging Bull" is noted. The book "Without Apology: Girls, Women and the Desire to Fight," by Leah Hager Cohen, focuses on how women boxers defy colonized identities.
- Subjects
WOMEN boxers in motion pictures; BOXING in motion pictures -- History &; criticism; GIRLFIGHT (Film); MINORITY women in motion pictures; WITHOUT Apology: Girls, Women &; the Desire to Fight (Book); RAGING Bull (Film : 1980)
- Publication
Cinema Journal, 2009, Vol 49, Issue 1, p103
- ISSN
0009-7101
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/cj.0.0154