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About Kasia Boddy

Kasia Boddy is a lecturer in English at University College London and has just completed a book on the representation of boxing in literature and art.

Articles by Kasia Boddy

Thursday 13th March

Clowning glories: Hollywood's screwball women

Kasia Boddy celebrates the brief reign of screwball's madcap women
Tuesday 13th November

Norman Mailer: a boxing life

A combative literary persona was forged in the symbolism of the ring

Friday 19th January

Rocky's American dreams

Sylvester Stallone's sixth instalment in the "Rocky" franchise about a washed-up palooka-cum-hero may be a movie driven by cartoon logic, but it is also a masterful exercise in nostalgia and American redemption, says Kasia Boddy.
Monday 6th November

Borat

As Sacha Baron Cohen's provocative film hits cinemas worldwide, Kasia Boddy asks who has done the most "cultural learning", Kazakhstan or America?
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