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Mythologies of Martial Arts

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By (author): Paul Bowman

What do martial arts signify today? What do they mean for East-West cross cultural exchanges? How does the representation of martial arts in popular culture impact on the wide world? What is authentic practice? What does it all mean? From Kung Fu to Jiujitsu and from Bruce Lee to The Karate Kid, Mythologies of Martial Arts explores the key myths and ideologies in martial arts in contemporary popular culture. The book combines the authors practical, professional and academic experience of martial arts to offer new insights into this complex, contradictory world. Inspired by the work of Roland Barthes in Mythologies, the book focusses on the signs, signifiers and practices of martial arts globally. Bringing together cultural studies, film studies, media studies, postcolonial studies with the emerging field of martial arts studies the book explores the broader significance of martial arts in global culture. Using an accessible yet theoretically sophisticated style the book is ideal for students, scholars and anyone interested in any type of martial art. See more
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Product Details
  • Weight: 381g
  • Dimensions: 145 x 231mm
  • Publication Date: 15 Dec 2016
  • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield International
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781786601919

About Paul Bowman

Paul Bowman is Director of Postgraduate Research Studies in the School of Journalism Media and Cultural Studies at Cardiff University. He is the founding editor of JOMEC Journal and Martial Arts Studies; founder of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Film and Visual Culture Research; Director of the Race Representation and Cultural Politics Research Group and co-director of the Reconstructing Multiculturalism Research Network. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Cardiff University Press. He has edited multiple issues of the journal Parallax plus issues of the journals Postcolonial Studies Social Semiotics and Educational Philosophy and Theory as well as regular issues of JOMEC Journal. In addition he has edited several books: Interrogating Cultural Studies (2003) The Truth of iek (2006) The Rey Chow Reader (2010) Reading Rancière (2011) and Rancière and Film (2013). He has also authored many academic monographs: Post-Marxism versus Cultural Studies (2007) Deconstructing Popular Culture (2008) Theorizing Bruce Lee (2010) Culture and the Media (2012) Beyond Bruce Lee (2013) and Reading Rey Chow (2013). His work has been translated into Italian Spanish Chinese and Farsi. He is on the editorial board of Culture Machine Global Discourse East Asian Journal of Popular Culture The Poster and Ctrl-Z: New/Media/Philosophy.

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