Legacies of the drunken master: politics of the body in Hong Kong Kung Fu comedy films
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White, L. 2020. Legacies of the drunken master: politics of the body in Hong Kong Kung Fu comedy films. Honolulu, USA University of Hawai'i Press.
Title | Legacies of the drunken master: politics of the body in Hong Kong Kung Fu comedy films |
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Authors | White, L. |
Abstract | In 1978, the film Drunken Master caused a stir in Hong Kong cinema, mixing martial arts and knockabout humour to huge box office success, breaking the mould of the ‘serious’ (tragic-heroic) martial arts film and sparking a trend for kung fu comedies. However, the kung fu comedy remains under-represented in the literature on martial arts cinema. |
Keywords | martial arts cinema, kung fu, comedy, Hong Kong culture, postcolonial identity, Jackie Chan, performance, slapstick, the body, carnival, hysteria, masculinity, violence, utopia, Walter Benjamin, Mikhail Bakhtin, the body, transnational cinema |
Research Group | Diasporas |
Visual Culture and Curating cluster | |
Series | Asia Pop! |
ISBN | |
Paperback | 9780824881573 |
Electronic | 9780824882983 |
Electronic | 9780824882990 |
Electronic | 9780824883003 |
Publisher | University of Hawai'i Press |
Place of publication | Honolulu, USA |
Publication dates | |
30 Apr 2020 | |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 16 Oct 2018 |
Accepted | 19 Sep 2018 |
Output status | Published |
Web address (URL) | https://uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/legacies-of-the-drunken-master-politics-of-the-body-in-hong-kong-kung-fu-comedy-films/ |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1515/9780824882983 |
Language | English |
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