Chinese Martial Arts and Media Culture (eBook)

Global Perspectives

Tim Trausch (Herausgeber)

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2018
238 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield International (Verlag)
978-1-78660-903-8 (ISBN)

Infos

Signs and images of the Chinese martial arts genre are increasingly included in the media of global popular culture. As tropes of martial arts are not restricted to what is constructed as one medium, one region, or one (sub)genre, neither are the essays in this collection.

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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.

Autor

lt;p>Tim Trausch is a research associate in the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Cologne. His research focuses on Chinese media culture and aesthetics. He has published essays on Chinese-language film and television, and a book on the aesthetics of martial arts cinema. His current work focuses on photography and modernity in late imperial and Republican-era China.

Inhalt

• 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 20th Century to the 21st Century (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 MUD Era: The Origins of Chinese Martial Arts Online Games (Zheng Baochun, Wang Mingwei)
• Martial Arts and Media Supplements (Paul Bowman)

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 16.11.2018
• Reihe/Serie: Martial Arts Studies
• Zusatzinfo: 31 Illustrations including: - 31 Black & White Illustrations.
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Kampfsport / Selbstverteidigung
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Schlagworte: Asian Studies • Chinese martial arts • Chinese Media Studies • Cultural Studies • Film and TV studies • Martial Arts • media
• ISBN-10: 1-78660-903-7 / 1786609037
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78660-903-8 / 9781786609038