Paul Bowman: Invention of Martial Arts

Cover: 9780197540343 | 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 boom in popular culture--media images and narratives actively constructed martial arts. Grounded in a historical survey of the British media history of martial arts such as Bartitsu, jujutsu, judo, karate, tai chi, and MMA across a range of media, this book thoroughly recasts our understanding of the history of martial arts. By interweaving theories of key thinkers on historiography, such as Foucault and Hobsbawm, and Said's ideas on Orientalism with analyses of both mainstream and marginal media texts, Bowman arrives at the surprising insight that media representations created martial arts rather than the other way around. In this way, he not only deepens our understanding of martial arts but also demonstrates the productive power of media discourses.

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.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Preface

Chapter 1: Introduction--The Invention of Martial Arts: Popular Culture between Asia and America

Chapter 2: Modernity, Media and Martial Arts, or: From Beginning at the Origin to the Origin of the Beginning

Chapter 3: Martial Arts into Media Culture

Chapter 4: Everybody Was Kung Ku Citing: Inventing Popular Martial Arts Aesthetics

Chapter 5: From Linear History to Discursive Constellation

Chapter 6: The Meaning of Martial Arts

Chapter 7: I Want My TKD: Martial Arts in Music Videos

Chapter 8: Martial Ads

Chapter 9: The Invention of Tradition in Martial Arts

Chapter 10: Inventing Martial Subjects: Toxic Masculinity, MMA and Media Representations

Conclusion: After the Invention

References

Index

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2020
Genre:	Importe , Sport
Produktart:	Nachschlagewerke
Rubrik:	Hobby & Freizeit
Thema:	Lexika & Handbücher
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9780197540343
ISBN-10:	0197540341
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Bowman, Paul
Hersteller:	OXFORD UNIV PR
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	234 x 156 x 15 mm
Von/Mit:	Paul Bowman
Erscheinungsdatum:	24.02.2021
Gewicht:	0,424 kg