Legacies of the Drunken Master : politics of the body in Hong Kong kung fu comedy films / Luke White.
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White, Luke, Ph. D. (författare)
- ISBN 0824889711
- Publicerad: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2021
- Copyright: ©2020
- Engelska x, 240 pages
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Serie: Asia pop!
Innehållsförteckning
Sammanfattning
Ämnesord
Stäng
- Carnival -- Utopia -- Violence -- Hysteria -- Masculinity -- Legacies -- Inheritors.
- "In 1978 the films Snake in the Eagle's 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 book's analyses are carried out amidst kung fu comedy's 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 comedy's 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"--
Ämnesord
- Människokroppen i filmen (sao)
- Våld i filmen (sao)
- Videovåld (sao)
- Manlighet i filmen (sao)
- Human body in motion pictures. (LCSH)
- Violence in motion pictures. (LCSH)
- Masculinity in motion pictures. (LCSH)
- Martial arts films -- China -- Hong Kong -- History and criticism. (LCSH)
- Comedy films -- China -- Hong Kong -- History and criticism. (LCSH)
- Comedy films. (fast)
- Human body in motion pictures. (fast)
- Martial arts films. (fast)
- Masculinity in motion pictures. (fast)
- Violence in motion pictures. (fast)
- Karatefilm -- historia (sao)
- Komedier (film) -- historia (sao)
- Human body in motion pictures (LCSH)
- Violence on television (LCSH)
- Violence in motion pictures (LCSH)
- Masculinity in motion pictures (LCSH)
- Violence in motion pictures (LCSH)
- Kina -- Hongkong (sao)
- China -- Hong Kong. (fast)
Genre
- Analys och tolkning (saogf)
- Criticism, interpretation, etc. (fast)
Klassifikation
- PN1995.9.H3 (LCC)
- 791.4365579 (DDC)
- Ima (kssb/8 (machine generated))
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