Chinese Martial Arts and Media Culture : Global Perspectives /: Global Perspectives. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Tim Trausch.
• Authors: Trausch, Tim
• Contents: Chinese Martial Arts and Media Culture; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Martial Arts and Media Culture in the Information Era: Glocalization, Heterotopia, Hyperculture; 1 The Demise of the Wuxia Film? The Mutation of a Genre from Manifestation of Crisis to Postmodern Pastiche and Reaffirmation of Centralized Power; 2 Transposing Jianghu in Chinese Martial Arts Cinema from the Twentieth to the Twenty-First Centuries; 3 A Touch of Sin, Translation, and Transmedial Imagination; 4 The Effortless Lightness of Action: Hong Kong Martial Arts Films in the Age of Immediacy 5 Imagining Transcultural Mediascapes: Martial Arts, African Appropriation, and the Deterritorializing Flows of Globalization6 From the Boxers to Kung Fu Panda: The Chinese Martial Arts in Global Entertainment; 7 Bruce Lee, Bruceploitation, and Beyond: Renegotiating Discourses of Original and Copy; 8 David Henry Hwang's Kung Fu in Cross-Cultural Perspectives; 9 In Search of the 36th Virtual Chamber: Martial Arts in Video Games from Screen Fighting to Wuxia Worldbuilding; 10 The Multiuser Dungeon Era: The Origins of Chinese Martial Arts Online Games Afterword: Martial Arts and Media SupplementsIndex; About the Contributors
• Publisher Details: London : Rowman & Littlefield International
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 791.43655; Social Science: Regional Studies; Martial arts films -- History and criticism; PERFORMING ARTS / Reference; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781786609038; 1786609037
• Related ISBNs: 9781786609021
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF file page (EBSCO, viewed October 24, 2018).
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