Fighting without Fighting - Kung Fu Cinema ' s Journey to the West [EPUB]

Fighting without Fighting: Kung Fu Cinema’s Journey to the West [EPUB]



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English | 2022 | ISBN: 1789145333 | 336 pages | EPUB | 5.7 MB

From classic Bruce Lee films to the comedies of Jackie Chan, a vibrant look at the enduring fascination with the kung fu cinema of Hong Kong.

In the spring and summer of 1973, a wave of martial arts movies from Hong Kong—epitomized by Bruce Lee’s Enter the Dragon—smashed box-office records for foreign-language films in America and ignited a “kung fu craze” that swept the world. Fighting without Fighting explores this dramatic phenomenon, and it argues that, more than just a cinematic fad, the West’s sudden fascination with—and moral panic about—the Asian fighting arts left lasting legacies still present today.