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The Invention of Martial Arts - Popular Culture Between Asia and America (Hardcover)
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The Invention of Martial Arts - Popular Culture Between Asia and America (Hardcover)
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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.
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