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The invention of martial arts : popular culture between Asia and America / Paul Bowman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bowman, Paul, 1971- author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Martial arts--Anthropological aspects.
- Martial arts.
- Martial arts--History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (280 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- 'The Invention of Martial Arts' examines the media history of what we now call `martial arts' and argues that martial arts is a cultural construction that was born in film, TV, and other media. It argues that 'martial arts' exploded into popular consciousness entirely thanks to the work of media. Of course, the text does not deny the existence of real, material histories and non-media dimensions in martial arts practices. But it thoroughly recasts the status of such histories, combining recent myth-busting findings in historical martial arts research with important insights into the discontinuous character of history, the widespread 'invention of tradition', the orientalism and imagined geographies that animate many ideas about history, and the frequent manipulation of history for reasons of status, cultural capital, private or public power, politics, and/or financial gain.
- Contents:
- 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 Fu 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 Representation.
- Notes:
- Also issued in print: 2020.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-754036-8
- 0-19-754035-X
- 0-19-754037-6
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