Luke White Legacies of the Drunken Master: Politics of the Body in Hong Kong Kung Fu Comedy Films 9780824881573

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Автор: Luke White
Название: Legacies of the Drunken Master: Politics of the Body in Hong Kong Kung Fu Comedy Films
ISBN: 9780824881573
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
Классификация:

История искусств / художественные и оформительские стили

Кино, кинематография

Кино: стили и жанры

История Азии

Спортивные единоборства и самозащита

ISBN-10: 0824881575
Обложка/Формат: Hardcover
Страницы: 288
Вес: 0.54 кг.
Дата издания: 30.04.2020
Серия: Asia pop!
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: 26 black & white illustrations
Размер: 231 x 155 x 23
Читательская аудитория: Professional and scholarly
Ключевые слова: Combat sports & self-defence,Asian history,Films, cinema,Film: styles & genres,History of art / art & design styles, HISTORY / Asia / China,ART / Film & Video,SPORTS & RECREATION / Martial Arts & Self-Defense
Подзаголовок: Politics of the body in hong kong kung fu comedy films
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: In 1978 the films Snake in the Eagles Shadow and Drunken Master, both starring a young Jackie Chan, caused a stir in the Hong Kong cinema industry and changed the landscape of martial arts cinema. Mixing virtuoso displays of acrobatic kung fu with knockabout humor to huge box office success, they broke the mold of the tragic and heroic martial arts film and sparked not only a wave of imitations, but also a much longer trend for kung fu comedies that continues to the present day. Legacies of the Drunken Master - the first book-length analysis of kung fu comedy - interrogates the politics of the films and their representations of the performing body. It draws on an interdisciplinary engagement with popular culture and an interrogation of the critical literature on Hong Kong and martial arts cinema to offer original readings of key films. These readings pursue the genre in terms of its carnival aesthetic, the utopias of the body it envisions, its highly stylized depictions of violence, its images of masculinity, and the registers of its hysterical laughter. The books analyses are carried out amidst kung fu comedys shifting historical contexts, including the aftermath of the 1960s radical youth movements, the rapidly globalizing colonial enclave of Hong Kong and the emerging consciousness of its 1997 handover to China, and the transnationalization of cinema audiences. It argues that through kung fu comedys images of the body, the genre articulated in complex and often contradictory ways political realities relevant to late twentieth-century Hong Kong and the wider conditions of globalized capitalism. The kung fu comedy entwines us in a popular cultural history that stretches into the folk past and forward into utopian and dystopian possibilities.Theoretically rich and critical, Legacies of the Drunken Master aims to be at the forefront of scholarship on martial arts cinema. It also addresses readers with a broader interest in Hong Kong culture and politics during the 1970s and 1980s, postcolonialism in East Asia, and action and comedy films in a global context - as well as those fascinated with the performing body in the martial arts.
Дополнительное описание: Film: styles and genres|History of art|Films, cinema|Combat sports and self-defence|Asian history

Legacies of the Drunken Master: Politics of the Body in Hong Kong Kung Fu Comedy Films, Luke White