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9780197540343

The Invention of Martial Arts Popular Culture Between Asia and America

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    9780197540343

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    0197540341

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2020-12-31
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Author Biography


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.

Table of Contents


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

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