Le champion des poids lourds de 1926 Jack Dempsey contre le challenger Gene Tunney a été présenté comme la plus grande bataille depuis l'âge silurien, et des millions d'Américains étaient déterminés à ne pas le manquer. Une foule record de 130 000 personnes a bloqué le stade de Philadelphie où le combat a eu lieu, tandis que quelque 39 millions d'auditeurs de radio à travers le pays se sont rassemblés dans les centres-villes, les magasins, les pharmacies, les clubs de sport et les théâtres pour entendre la couverture en direct de l'événement. Aucun spectacle civique précédent aux États-Unis n'avait attiré autant de témoins.
La réalisation de cet événement – pas seulement le combat lui-même, mais toute la frénésie publique qui y a assisté – est le sujet du nouveau livre fascinant de Bruce J. Evensen. Lorsque Dempsey Fought Tunney examine la culture de la célébrité par les médias de masse pendant l'ère du jazz. Evensen montre comment Jack Dempsey, un hobo du Colorado devenu boxeur lourd, est venu à représenter dans l'iconographie populaire le dernier vestige de l'esprit pionnier brut qui avait apprivoisé la nature sauvage américaine. Contre l'image de Dempsey en tant que noble sauvage, Evensen explique, la presse et les promoteurs de combat contrastaient cannellement celle de Gene Tunney, l'urbain d'Easterner qui semblait être tout ce que Dempsey n'était pas - un combattant scientifique, toute défense et stratégie. Dempsey et Tunney sont ainsi devenus, de leurs différentes manières, des exemples de la nouvelle culture des célébrités qui a émergé au début du XXe siècle.
Rempli de détails divertissants sur les grands moments de l'histoire de la boxe, le livre retrace également les développements journalistiques, tels que la montée du scénariste sportif vedette, qui ont joué un rôle essentiel dans la création et le maintien de l'enthousiasme public face aux événements sportifs. Le résultat est un compte coloré et perspicace de l'appétit américain pour les héros et le spectacle ainsi que du réseau de promotion et de publicité qui nourrit cet appétit.
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Vendeur : World of Books (was SecondSale), Montgomery, IL, Etats-Unis
Paperback. Etat : Good. The 1926 heavyweight match pitting champion Jack Dempsey against challenger Gene Tunney was billed as "the greatest battle since the Silurian Age," and millions of Americans were determined not to miss it. A record-breaking crowd of 130,000 jammed the Philadelphia stadium where the fight was held, while some 39 million radio listeners nationwide gathered at city centers, storefronts, drugstores, athletic clubs, and theaters to hear live coverage of the event. No previous civic spectacle in the United States had drawn so many witnesses. The making of that event--not just the fight itself but the whole public frenzy that attended it--is the subject of Bruce J. Evensen's fascinating new book. When Dempsey Fought Tunney examines the mass media's cultivation of celebrity during the Jazz Age. Evensen shows how Jack Dempsey, a Colorado hobo turned heavyweight boxer, came to represent in popular iconography the last vestige of the raw pioneering spirit that had tamed the American wilderness. Against the image of Dempsey as noble savage, Evensen explains, the press and fight promoters cannily contrasted that of Gene Tunney, the urbane easterner who seemed to be everything Dempsey was not--a "scientific" fighter, all defense and strategy. Dempsey and Tunney thus became, in their different ways, prime exemplars of the new celebrity culture that emerged during the early twentieth century. Filled with entertaining details about great moments in boxing history, the book also traces the journalistic developments--such as the rise of the star sportswriter--that played a critical role in creating and sustaining public excitement over sporting events. The result is a colorful, insightful account of America's appetite for heroes and spectacle as well as of the network of promotion and publicity that nurtures that appetite. N° de réf. du vendeur 00109745407
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Paperback. Etat : Good. The 1926 heavyweight match pitting champion Jack Dempsey against challenger Gene Tunney was billed as "the greatest battle since the Silurian Age," and millions of Americans were determined not to miss it. A record-breaking crowd of 130,000 jammed the Philadelphia stadium where the fight was held, while some 39 million radio listeners nationwide gathered at city centers, storefronts, drugstores, athletic clubs, and theaters to hear live coverage of the event. No previous civic spectacle in the United States had drawn so many witnesses. The making of that event--not just the fight itself but the whole public frenzy that attended it--is the subject of Bruce J. Evensen's fascinating new book. When Dempsey Fought Tunney examines the mass media's cultivation of celebrity during the Jazz Age. Evensen shows how Jack Dempsey, a Colorado hobo turned heavyweight boxer, came to represent in popular iconography the last vestige of the raw pioneering spirit that had tamed the American wilderness. Against the image of Dempsey as noble savage, Evensen explains, the press and fight promoters cannily contrasted that of Gene Tunney, the urbane easterner who seemed to be everything Dempsey was not--a "scientific" fighter, all defense and strategy. Dempsey and Tunney thus became, in their different ways, prime exemplars of the new celebrity culture that emerged during the early twentieth century. Filled with entertaining details about great moments in boxing history, the book also traces the journalistic developments--such as the rise of the star sportswriter--that played a critical role in creating and sustaining public excitement over sporting events. The result is a colorful, insightful account of America's appetite for heroes and spectacle as well as of the network of promotion and publicity that nurtures that appetite. N° de réf. du vendeur CIN0870499181G
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