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Martial Arts Studies: Chinese Martial Arts and Media Culture : Global Perspectives by Tim Trausch (2021, Trade Paperback)
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PublisherRowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
ISBN-101538147882
ISBN-139781538147887
eBay Product ID (ePID)10057282317
Product Key Features
Number of Pages238 Pages
Publication NameChinese Martial Arts and Media Culture : Global Perspectives
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2021
SubjectRegional Studies, General, Popular Culture
TypeTextbook
AuthorTim Trausch
Subject AreaSports & Recreation, Social Science
SeriesMartial Arts Studies
FormatTrade Paperback
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Item Height0.5 in
Item Weight12.5 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
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ReviewsBeginning with the first movies produced in Shanghai during the 1920s, this book mainly addresses the amazing success and manifold metamorphoses martial arts narratives have undergone since global capitalism entered and transmogrified Asian modernities. The virtual universe of today's digital martial arts games is furthermore traced all the way back into antiquity, when the fictional wuxia communities' enchanted heterotopia of the "Rivers and Lakes" (jianghu) first emerged. Besides exploring a range of methodologies for the cultural analysis of the most widely known contemporary representations, readers are also introduced to less popular topics and forms that critically interrogate the contemporary globalized hype. For instance, it is demonstrated how the Orientalist fashioning of the martial arts hero serves ambiguous trajectories in global cultural contexts, as it can be employed to either overcome or redraw ethnic and cultural boundaries. In sum, the book offers timely, sound, multi-scalar scholarship that sheds new light on the major generic, aesthetic, and ideological configurations of martial arts since the early 20th century. Its intellectual rigor and rich material corpus moreover facilitate significant conceptual advances in this and related fields of inquiry., Scholars have traditionally separated the study of the 'Asian martial arts' as bodily practice from the examination of the ideas and images that uphold them. This collection expertly problematizes that notion while showcasing innovative insights from media and cultural studies. Fresh and always fascinating, it will be critical reading for anyone curious about the place of the martial arts in the modern world. -- Benjamin N. Judkins, Visiting Scholar, Cornell University East Asia Program and co-author of The Creation of Wing Chun: A Social History of the Southern Chinese Martial Arts This lively, varied and innovative collection breaks the confines of film and area studies to chart representations of the martial arts as they circulate in our global media culture. Doing so, it offers valuable new insights into both the transnational media landscape and the meaning of the martial arts within this, not only today but also historically. -- Luke White, Senior Lecturer in Visual Culture and Fine Art, Middlesex University, UK Whether examining the 'traces' of Bruce Lee, the 'effortless' action of Hong Kong martial arts cinema or online wuxia worldbuilding, this book is an essential read for anyone interested in the re-shaping of Chinese martial arts in the mediascapes of the 20th and 21st centuries. Covering film, TV, theatre, literature and gaming, it's a veritable 36th Chamber of interdisciplinary perspectives. -- Leon Hunt, Senior Lecturer in Film and TV Studies, Brunel University Beginning with the first movies produced in Shanghai during the 1920s, this book mainly addresses the amazing success and manifold metamorphoses martial arts narratives have undergone since global capitalism entered and transmogrified Asian modernities. The virtual universe of today's digital martial arts games is furthermore traced all the way back into antiquity, when the fictional wuxia communities' enchanted heterotopia of the "Rivers and Lakes" (jianghu) first emerged. Besides exploring a range of methodologies for the cultural analysis of the most widely known contemporary representations, readers are also introduced to less popular topics and forms that critically interrogate the contemporary globalized hype. For instance, it is demonstrated how the Orientalist fashioning of the martial arts hero serves ambiguous trajectories in global cultural contexts, as it can be employed to either overcome or redraw ethnic and cultural boundaries. In sum, the book offers timely, sound, multi-scalar scholarship that sheds new light on the major generic, aesthetic, and ideological configurations of martial arts since the early 20th century. Its intellectual rigor and rich material corpus moreover facilitate significant conceptual advances in this and related fields of inquiry. -- Andrea Riemenschnitter, Professor of Modern Chinese Language and Literature, University of Zurich, Scholars have traditionally separated the study of the 'Asian martial arts' as bodily practice from the examination of the ideas and images that uphold them. This collection expertly problematizes that notion while showcasing innovative insights from media and cultural studies. Fresh and always fascinating, it will be critical reading for anyone curious about the place of the martial arts in the modern world., This lively, varied and innovative collection breaks the confines of film and area studies to chart representations of the martial arts as they circulate in our global media culture. Doing so, it offers valuable new insights into both the transnational media landscape and the meaning of the martial arts within this, not only today but also historically., Beginning with the first movies produced in Shanghai during the 1920s, this book mainly addresses the amazing success and manifold metamorphoses martial arts narratives have undergone since global capitalism entered and transmogrified Asian modernities. The virtual universe of today's digital martial arts games is furthermore traced all the way back into antiquity, when the fictional wuxia communities' enchanted heterotopia of the "Rivers and Lakes" (jianghu) first emerged. Besides exploring a range of methodologies for the cultural analysis of the most widely known contemporary representations, readers are also introduced to less popular topics and forms that critically interrogate the contemporary globalized hype. For instance, it is demonstrated how the Orientalist fashioning of the martial arts hero serves ambiguous trajectories in global cultural contexts, as it can be employed to either overcome or redraw ethnic and cultural boundaries. In sum, the book offers timely, sound, multi-scalar scholarship that sheds new light on the major generic, aesthetic, and ideological configurations of martial arts since the early 20th century. Its intellectual rigor and rich material corpus moreover facilitate significant conceptual advances in this and related fields of inquiry. that sheds new light on the major generic, aesthetic, and ideological configurations of martial arts since the early 20th century. Its intellectual rigor and rich material corpus moreover facilitate significant conceptual advances in this and related fields of inquiry.that sheds new light on the major generic, aesthetic, and ideological configurations of martial arts since the early 20th century. Its intellectual rigor and rich material corpus moreover facilitate significant conceptual advances in this and related fields of inquiry.that sheds new light on the major generic, aesthetic, and ideological configurations of martial arts since the early 20th century. Its intellectual rigor and rich material corpus moreover facilitate significant conceptual advances in this and related fields of inquiry., Whether examining the 'traces' of Bruce Lee, the 'effortless' action of Hong Kong martial arts cinema or online wuxia worldbuilding, this book is an essential read for anyone interested in the re-shaping of Chinese martial arts in the mediascapes of the 20th and 21st centuries. Covering film, TV, theatre, literature and gaming, it's a veritable 36th Chamber of interdisciplinary perspectives., "Scholars have traditionally separated the study of the 'Asian martial arts' as bodily practice from the examination of the ideas and images that uphold them. This collection expertly problematizes that notion while showcasing innovative insights from media and cultural studies. Fresh and always fascinating, it will be critical reading for anyone curious about the place of the martial arts in the modern world." --Benjamin N. Judkins, co-editor of the journal Martial Arts Studies (Cardiff University Press) "This lively, varied and innovative collection breaks the confines of film and area studies to chart representations of the martial arts as they circulate in our global media culture. Doing so, it offers valuable new insights into both the transnational media landscape and the meaning of the martial arts within this, not only today but also historically." --Luke White, Senior Lecturer in Visual Culture and Fine Art, Middlesex University, UK "Whether examining the 'traces' of Bruce Lee, the 'effortless' action of Hong Kong martial arts cinema or online wuxia worldbuilding, this book is an essential read for anyone interested in the re-shaping of Chinese martial arts in the mediascapes of the 20th and 21st centuries. Covering film, TV, theatre, literature and gaming, it's a veritable 36th Chamber of interdisciplinary perspectives." --Leon Hunt, Senior Lecturer in Film and TV Studies, Brunel University "Beginning with the first movies produced in Shanghai during the 1920s, this book mainly addresses the amazing success and manifold metamorphoses martial arts narratives have undergone since global capitalism entered and transmogrified Asian modernities. The virtual universe of today's digital martial arts games is furthermore traced all the way back into antiquity, when the fictional wuxia communities' enchanted heterotopia of the "Rivers and Lakes" (jianghu) first emerged. Besides exploring a range of methodologies for the cultural analysis of the most widely known contemporary representations, readers are also introduced to less popular topics and forms that critically interrogate the contemporary globalized hype. For instance, it is demonstrated how the Orientalist fashioning of the martial arts hero serves ambiguous trajectories in global cultural contexts, as it can be employed to either overcome or redraw ethnic and cultural boundaries. In sum, the book offers timely, sound, multi-scalar scholarship that sheds new light on the major generic, aesthetic, and ideological configurations of martial arts since the early 20th century. Its intellectual rigor and rich material corpus moreover facilitate significant conceptual advances in this and related fields of inquiry." --Andrea Riemenschnitter, Professor of Modern Chinese Language and Literature, University of Zurich
Dewey Edition23
Grade FromCollege Senior
IllustratedYes
Grade ToCollege Graduate Student
Dewey Decimal791.43/6579
Table Of ContentIntroduction: Martial Arts and Media Culture in the Information Era: Glocalization, Heterotopia, Hyperculture (Tim Trausch) The Demise of the Wuxia Film? - The Mutation of a Genre from Manifestation of Crisis to Postmodern Pastiche and Reaffirmation of Centralized Power (Clemens von Haselberg) Transposing Jianghu in Chinese Martial Arts Cinema From the 20th Century to the 21st Century (Helena Wu) A Touch of Sin, Translation, and Transmedial Imagination (Carlos Rojas) The Effortless Lightness of Action: Hong Kong Martial Arts Films in the Age of Immediacy (Man-Fung Yip) Imagining Transcultural Mediascapes: Martial Arts, African Appropriation, and the Deterritorializing Flows of Globalization (Ivo Ritzer) From the Boxers to Kung Fu Panda: The Chinese Martial Arts in Global Entertainment (John Christopher (Chris) Hamm) Bruce Lee, Bruceploitation, and Beyond: Renegotiating Discourses of Original and Copy (Tim Trausch) David Henry Hwang's Kung Fu in Cross-Cultural Perspectives (Kin-Yan Szeto) In Search of the 36th Virtual Chamber - Martial Arts in Video Games From Screen Fighting to Wuxia Worldbuilding (Andreas Rauscher) The MUD Era: The Origins of Chinese Martial Arts Online Games (Zheng Baochun, Wang Mingwei) Martial Arts and Media Supplements (Paul Bowman)
SynopsisSigns and images of Chinese martial arts increasingly circulate through global media cultures. As tropes of martial arts are not restricted to what is considered one medium, one region, or one (sub)genre, the essays in this collection are looking across and beyond these alleged borders. From 1920s wuxia cinema to the computer game cultures of the information age, they trace the continuities and transformations of martial arts and media culture across time, space, and multiple media platforms., Signs and images of the Chinese martial arts genre are increasingly included in the media of global popular culture. As tropes of martial arts are not restricted to what is constructed as one medium, one region, or one (sub)genre, neither are the essays in this collection.
LC Classification NumberGV1100.7
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