Carnival of the drunken master: the politics of the Kung Fu comedic body
Book chapter
White, L. 2018. Carnival of the drunken master: the politics of the Kung Fu comedic body. in: Bowman, P. (ed.) The Martial Arts Studies Reader London Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 199-212
Chapter title | Carnival of the drunken master: the politics of the Kung Fu comedic body |
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Authors | White, L. |
Abstract | The shift from the primarily heroic kungfu films of the early 1970s to the kungfu comedies of the end of the decade (typified by the ‘Drunken Master’ cycle that launched the careers of Jackie Chan and Yuen Woo-ping) has often been understood as marking a depoliticisation of the genre (Chan, 1980; Hunt, 2003). To refute such readings, I read Hong Kong kungfu comedy through the changing motif of the body, in relation to wider twentieth-century histories of physical culture in greater China. |
Keywords | kung fu, martial arts, Hong Kong cinema, action cinema, comedy films, Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung, Yuen Woo Ping, carnival, carnivalesque, Bakhtin, grotesque body, national identity, ethnic identity, diaspora, postcolonial theory, |
Research Group | Diasporas |
Visual Culture and Curating cluster | |
Page range | 199-212 |
Book title | The Martial Arts Studies Reader |
Editors | Bowman, P. |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Place of publication | London |
Series | Martial Arts Studies |
ISBN | |
Hardcover | 9781786605498 |
Publication dates | |
01 Oct 2018 | |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 18 Jul 2018 |
Accepted | 23 May 2018 |
Output status | Published |
Web address (URL) | https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781786605481/The-Martial-Arts-Studies-Reader |
Language | English |
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