UID:
almahu_9949703607202882
Format:
1 online resource (255 pages)
ISBN:
9789042027787
Series Statement:
Contemporary cinema, 5
Content:
Theorizing Bruce Lee is a unique work, which uses cultural theory to analyse and assess Bruce Lee, and uses Bruce Lee to analyse and assess cultural theory. Lee is shown to be a major 'event' in both global film and global popular culture - a figure who's central to many intercultural encounters, texts, and practices. Many key elements of film and cultural theory are employed to theorize Bruce Lee, and Lee is shown to be a complex - and consequential - multimedia, multidisciplinary and multicultural phenomenon. Theorizing Bruce Lee is essential reading for anyone interested in Bruce Lee in popular culture and as an object of academic study.
Note:
Includes filmography (p. [245]-246).
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Preliminary Material -- User Guide: Main Menu -- Theorizing Bruce Lee: Sublime Object of Academia -- Film-Fantasy: The Communication of Screen Violence -- Fantasy-Fighting -- Fighting-Philosophy -- Works Cited and Consulted -- Filmography -- Index.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Bowman, Paul, 1971- Theorizing Bruce Lee. Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2010 ISBN 9789042027770
Language:
English
Keywords:
Biography.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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