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Mythologies of martial arts /
What do martial arts signify today? What do they mean for East-West cross cultural exchanges? How does the representation of martial arts in popular culture impact on the wide world? What is authentic practice? What does it all mean? From Kung Fu to Jiujitsu and from Bruce Lee to The Karate Kid, Myt...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Rowman & Littlefield International,
[2017]
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| Colección: | Martial arts studies.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- Wrestling myth
- The status of martial arts in the West : from the Kung Fu craze to Master Ken
- Cross-cultural desire in Western Eastern martial arts
- The circulation of Qi (in media and culture)
- Myths of martial arts history, authority, and authenticity
- On kicking, Kung Fu, and knowing your lineage
- Enter the ethnicity
- The gender of martial arts studies
- Everybody was action film fighting
- From weird to wonderful and back again
- Martial arts myths today.