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  • The Invention of Martial Arts - I Want My TKD: Martial Arts in Music Videos
    The Invention of Martial Arts, 2020
    Co-Authors: Paul Bowman
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    Chapter 7 picks up the idea of the fragmentariness of contemporary media culture in examining Martial Arts in music videos. Called ‘I want my TKD: Martial Arts in Music Videos’, this chapter is a wide-ranging survey of pop, hip-hop, and rock videos. The chapter begins with a discussion of the historical emergence of music videos as a powerful player in international popular culture with the appearance of MTV, before moving into an analysis of the earliest music videos to feature Martial Arts—several of which were, interestingly, parodic, comic, novelty, or eccentric rap songs, performed by white artists. Later texts demonstrate chaotic relationships with and (mis)understandings of Asian countries and cultures. The chapter argues that Martial Arts themes are particularly significant in progressive rap and hip-hop music videos, while in pop and rock videos Martial Arts are often treated as comic.

  • The Invention of Martial Arts - The Meaning of Martial Arts
    The Invention of Martial Arts, 2020
    Co-Authors: Paul Bowman
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    Having taken the time to identify several discursive regularities and recurring motifs in Martial Arts imagery, Chapter 6 moves further into ‘delineating a discursive constellation’. This chapter combines a deeper theorization of the discursive entity of Martial Arts as a floating signifier with a study of Martial Arts in the British national press and a discussion of the cacophony of images of Martial Arts in recent media history. In further clarifying the shifting and variable status of Martial Arts in anglophone contexts, the chapter reflects on its similarities and differences in terms of a consideration of the range of terms used for Chinese Martial Arts. It argues that all of these reflect different cultural and political interests, and turns to reflect on what it terms the narrative arc of appropriation in Martial Arts. The chapter closes on a discussion of Martial Arts and issues in gender and feminism, before returning to the fragmented and fragmentary character of encounters with and representations of Martial Arts.

  • The Invention of Martial Arts - Martial Arts into Media Culture
    The Invention of Martial Arts, 2020
    Co-Authors: Paul Bowman
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    After reflecting on the convulsions and tectonic shifts in attitudes and approaches to interpersonal combat caused by the horrors of the First World War, Chapter 3 explores the movements of ‘Martial Arts into Media Culture’. This chapter covers the emergence of different kinds of comic (from war comics to Marvel) which feature impressive feats of combat, and the early appearance of Arts such as judo and karate in various media. It analyses memorable media moments, such as the influential TV series, The Avengers, and the long-running series of adverts for the aftershave ‘Hai Karate’, before opening out into the discursive explosion of Martial Arts texts in the 1970s.

  • Deconstructing Martial Arts
    2019
    Co-Authors: Paul Bowman
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    What is the essence of Martial Arts? What is their place in or relationship with culture and society? Deconstructing Martial Arts analyses familiar issues and debates that arise in scholarly, practitioner and popular cultural discussions and treatments of Martial Arts and argues that Martial Arts are dynamic and variable constructs whose meanings and values regularly shift, mutate and transform, depending on the context. It argues that deconstructing Martial Arts is an invaluable approach to both the scholarly study of Martial Arts in culture and society and also to wider understandings of what and why Martial Arts are. Placing Martial Arts in relation to core questions and concerns of media and cultural studies around identity, value, orientalism, and embodiment, Deconstructing Martial Arts introduces and elaborates deconstruction as a rewarding method of cultural studies.

  • Editorial: Is Martial Arts studies trivial?
    Martial Arts Studies, 2017
    Co-Authors: Paul Bowman, Benjamin N. Judkins
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    Before introducing the articles comprising this issue of Martial Arts Studies , this editorial first undertakes a sustained reflection on the question of whether the emergent field of Martial Arts studies might be regarded as trivial. In doing so, it explores possible rationales and raisons d’etre of the field in terms of a reflection on the legitimation of academic subjects, especially those closest to Martial Arts studies, from which Martial Arts studies can be said to have emerged. The first draft of this reflection was originally written by Bowman in response to certain reactions to his academic interest in Martial Arts (hence the occasional use of the pronoun ‘I’, rather than ‘we’), but Judkins proposed that the piece form part of this issue’s editorial, because of the importance of thinking about what this ‘Martial Arts studies’ thing is that we are doing, what the point of it may be, and whether or not it may be trivial.

Li Jun-hu - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Research on Development of Chinese Martial Arts Clothing——Mandarin Jacket in Evolution and Formation of Contemporary Martial Arts Clothing
    2014
    Co-Authors: Li Jun-hu
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    Adopting method of literature consultation, based on research result of domestic contemporary Martial Arts clothing and history, this thesis explores Martial Arts clothing from the perspective of Chinese Martial Arts culture. Martial Arts clothing develops from attack skills, inherits in folk. Competitive Martial Arts clothing plays important role and great impact to heritage, development and reform of Martial Arts clothing. In addition, innovation and reform of Martial Arts clothing bring a significant effect on regulation restraint and formation of contemporary Martial Arts clothing. Mandarin jacket is the inheritance and continuation of ancient deep clothing system. It has experienced reform of Hu clothing, mainly wearing clothing for nomadic people from Manchu and Qing, which belongs to Chinese clothing. It is also important source of development in Martial Arts clothing, and provides right concept to formation of Martial Arts clothing. Martial Arts clothing is formed by inheritance, development and innovation of mandarin jacket as main body. Martial Arts clothing got fully development during this period, and finally formed a complete system. With help of formation of mandarin jacket in Chinese Martial Arts clothing, this paper researches, traces and explores inheritance, evolution and trend of Martial Arts clothing, providestheoretical basis for future development.

Hong Hao - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Historic Trend and International Development of Traditional Martial Arts
    Journal of Sports Adult Education, 2013
    Co-Authors: Hong Hao
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    On the basis of modern and international theories,the paper analyses the international connotation of tra ditional Martial Arts and the time requirement and key concept of the international development of traditional Martial Arts.The paper points out that the international development ways of Martial Arts are traditional Martial Arts organiza tion,Martial Arts competition,Martial Arts education,Martial Arts communication and Martial Arts media.The paper proposes to reconstruct skills,update ideas with the time,transform development ways and innovate the manage ment system.

  • The Modern Trend of Traditional Martial Arts
    Journal of Chengdu Sport University, 2012
    Co-Authors: Hong Hao
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    It is the inevitable choice for the traditional Martial Arts to modernize itself under both internal and external pressures.What comes first is the self-renovation and reconstruction under the external pressure.With the continuous introduction of modern western sports,the existing space of traditional Martial Arts has been extruded and weakened.As the whole society of China is now developing from the previous agricultural one to an industrial one,the traditional Martial Arts has witnessed fundamental changes duo to the external influence.At the same time,the modern transformation of the traditional Martial Arts is also a kind of inevitable choice after cultural consciousness because the traditional Martial Arts can reconstruct its own cultural space and establish its own discourse power only by re-identifying itself in the global system.

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