<<The>> invention of martial arts popular culture between Asia and America
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 Fu Citing: Inventing Po...
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New York, NY
Oxford University Press
2021
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | 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 Fu 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 Representation. "The Invention of Martial Arts examines the media history of what we now call 'martial arts' and argues that martial arts is a cultural construction that was born in film, TV and other media. It argues that 'martial arts' exploded into popular consciousness entirely thanks to the work of media. Of course, the book does not deny the existence of real, material histories and non-media dimensions in martial arts practices. But it thoroughly recasts the status of such histories, combining recent myth-busting findings in historical martial arts research with important insights into the discontinuous character of history, the widespread 'invention of tradition', the orientalism and imagined geographies that animate many ideas about history, and the frequent manipulation of history for reasons of status, cultural capital, private or public power, politics, and/or financial gain. In doing so, The Invention of Martial Arts argues for the primacy of media representation as key player in the emergence and spread of martial arts. This argument overturns the dominant belief that 'real practices' are primary, while representations are secondary. The book makes its case via historical analysis of the British media history of such Eastern and Western martial arts as Bartitsu, jujutsu, judo, karate, tai chi and MMA across a range of media, from newspapers, comics and books to cartoon, film and TV series, as well as television adverts and music videos, focusing on key but often overlooked texts such as adverts for 'Hai Karate', the 1970s disco hit 'Kung Fu Fighting', and many other mainstream and marginal media texts"-- |
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| Beschreibung: | Enthält Literaturverzeichnis (Seiten [245]-258) und Index (Seiten [259]-262) |
| ISBN: | 9780197540336 9780197540343 |