When We Were Kings: Revisiting the Rumble in the Jungle

This Film as Text looks at Leon Gast's When We Were Kings. Gast writes that while the film is ostensibly an 'event-centred' film about the 1974 World Heavyweight Championship title fight, its narrative construction allows a variety of themes extraneous to boxing to be explored. It could be described as a historical film that provides a time capsule of the era, and it has a strong ethnographic focus.