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Paul Bowman

The Invention of Martial Arts

Popular Culture Between Asia and America

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Through popular movies starring Bruce Lee and songs like the disco hit Kung Fu Fighting, martial arts have found a central place in the Western cultural imagination. But what would 'martial arts' be without the explosion of media texts and images that brought it to a wide audience in the late 1960s and early 1970s? In this examination of the media history of what we now call martial arts, author Paul Bowman makes the bold case that the phenomenon of martial arts is chiefly an invention of media representations. Rather than passively taking up a preexisting history of martial arts practices--some of which, of course, predated the martial arts… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-19-754035-0
  • EAN: 9780197540350
  • Produktnummer: 35431244
  • Verlag: Oxford University Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
  • Plattform: PDF
  • Masse: 12'508 KB

Über den Autor


Paul Bowman is Professor of Cultural Studies at Cardiff University. He is the author of many works of film, media and cultural studies, on popular culture, postcolonialism, cultural theory, and martial arts. He is founder and director of the Martial Arts Studies Research Network.

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