Chinese martial arts and media culture : global perspectives / edited by Tim Trausch.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Trausch, Tim, editor.

Series:

Martial arts studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Martial arts films--History and criticism.

Martial arts films.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xxvi, 211 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : Rowman & Littlefield International Ltd., [2018]

Summary:

Signs 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.

Contents:

Introduction : 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 Twentieth to the Twenty-First Centuries / 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 Multiuser Dungeon Era : The Origins of Chinese Martial Arts Online Games / Zheng Baochun and Wang Mingwei, translated by Hiu M. Chan and Tim Trausch

Afterword : Martial Arts and Media Supplements / Paul Bowman.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781786609021

1786609029

OCLC:

1035291439