Abstract
Boxing offers a unique visual experience that, for its voyeurism, is readily cinematic. The fight may elicit various conflicting emotions and responses in the spectator?fear, anger, disgust, pleasure?all of which heighten the emotional mood of the scene and intensify the fascination of looking at bod ies on display and in performance. Recently, the dynamics of the boxing scene have shifted with women's entry into the mediated world of the ring. The boxing film genre?Requiem for a Heavyweight (Ralph Nelson, 1962), Fat City (John Huston, 1972), Rocky (John G. Avildesen, 1976) and the Rocky franchise, Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese, 1980), and Cinderella Man (Ron Howard, 2005)?is now joined by films that chronicle the story of women in boxing?Blonde Fist (Frank Glarkey, 1991), Shadow Boxers (Katya Bankowski, 1999), Girlfight (Karyn Kusama, 2000), Knockout (Lorenzo Doumani, 2000), Honeybee (Melvin James, 2001), and Million Dollar Baby
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