Tag: prizefighting
Call for Participants | Jesús Costantino: “Friday Nights Live: Television and Prizefighting in the Post-Segregation Era” | Iowa Colloquium on Sport and Culture. Webinar on Zoom, Friday November 10,...
The relationship between postwar television broadcast and the Civil Rights Movement is complex. In an effort to untangle some of this fraught history, this talk examines the entanglements between live television broadcasts and interracial prizefighting in the 1950s and 1960s. Looking at the history of live prizefight broadcast as well as the TV and film versions of Rod Serling’s Requiem for a Heavyweight (produced in 1956 and 1962, respectively), the talk analyzes the ways live broadcast technology was shaped by (and shaped in turn) the post-segregation racial regime.
