"Theorizing Bruce Lee" is a unique work, which uses cultural theory
to analyse and assess Bruce Lee, and uses Bruce Lee to analyse and
assess cultural theory. Lee is shown to be a major 'event' in both
global film and global popular culture - a figure who's central to
many intercultural encounters, texts, and practices. Many key
elements of film and cultural theory are employed to theorize Bruce
Lee, and Lee is shown to be a complex - and consequential -
multimedia, multidisciplinary and multicultural phenomenon.
"Theorizing Bruce Lee" is essential reading for anyone interested
in Bruce Lee in popular culture and as an object of academic study.
"Bruce Lee is a complex and contradictory figure, and it's a
formidable task to take on the multiple facets of his legacy -
fighter, film star, philosopher, nationalist, multiculturalist,
innovator. With an approach as multidisciplinary and iconoclastic
as Lee's approach to martial arts, Bowman provides an original and
exhilarating account of Lee as 'cultural event'. No one has done a
better job of explaining why the martial arts 'legend' remains such
an important and provocative figure." -Leon Hunt (Brunel
University), author of "Kung Fu Cult Masters: From Bruce Lee to
Crouching Tiger." - "Taking on Martin Heidegger and Slavoj i ek as
well as drawing on Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Guy Debord,
Jacques Ranciere, Rey Chow, and Stuart Hall, among others, Bowman
shows how Bruce Lee 'speaks' to the philosophical debates that
frame our understanding of global popular culture today. Although
Bowman may not be able to resolve the philosophical battles
surrounding our ability to 'know' Bruce Lee, he does a remarkable
job of articulating why Bruce Lee remains an essential force within
not only world cinema but global culture - both 'high' and 'low.'
Armoured with his philosophical nunchakus, Bowman goes to battle
with anyone who may doubt Lee's ongoing importance, and this book
will undoubtedly become essential reading for everyone (from
philosopher to kung fu practitioner) interested in popular culture
and Asian cinema." - Gina Marchetti (University of Hong Kong),
author of "Romance and the "Yellow Peril" Race, Sex and Discursive
Strategies in Hollywood Fiction," and "From Tian'anmen to Times
Square: Transnational China and the Chinese Diaspora on Global
Screens, 1989-1997."
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