Martial Arts Studies in JOMEC Journal


Here's a little teaser: The table of contents of the upcoming 'martial arts studies' issue of JOMEC Journal (June 2014). Feast your eyes!

Paul Bowman: Editorial: Martial Arts Studies

Keywords: martial arts studies

 

Kyle Barrowman: No Way as Way: Towards a Poetics of Martial Arts Cinema

Keywords: Martial Arts | Film Studies | Cultural Studies | Theory | Post-Theory | Poetics

 

Esther Berg and Inken Prohl: 'Become your Best': On the Construction of Martial Arts as Means of Self-Actualization and Self-Improvement

Keywords: Shaolin Kung Fu | martial arts | Bruce Lee | religious exercise and self-cultivation | digital media | medialization | translocative analysis

 

Daniele Bolelli: How Gladiatorial Movies and Martial Arts Cinema Influenced the Development of The Ultimate Fighting Championship

Keywords: Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) | Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) | Martial Arts Films | Gladiatorial Films | Choreography

 

Paul Bowman: Instituting Reality in Martial Arts

Keywords: Reality | institution | repetition | reiteration | Keysi | taijiquan

 

Greg Downey: 'As Real As It Gets!' Producing hyperviolence in mixed martial arts

Keywords: Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) | Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) | Hyperviolence | Hyperreality | Virtualism | Reality

 

Adam D. Frank: Unstructuring Structure and Communicating Secrets inside/outside a Chinese Martial Arts Association

Keywords: Taijiquan | Structure | Lineage | Secrets | Martial Arts

 

Leon Hunt: Enter the 2-Disc Platinum Edition: Bruce Lee and Post-DVD Textuality

Keywords: Bruce Lee | DVD textuality | DVD extras | The Big Boss | Game of Death

 

Lynette Hunter and Richard Schubert: Winning, Losing, and Wandering Play: Zhuangzian Paradox and Daoist Practice

Keywords: Zhuangzi | Martial Arts | Daoist Movement | The Undifferentiated | Play – non-teleological | Performatives

 

Ben Judkins: Inventing Kung Fu

Keywords: Kung Fu | Wushu | Chinese Martial Arts | Definition | Globalization | Chinese Martial Studies | Etymology

 

Gina Marchetti: Does the Karate Kid Have a Kung Fu Dream? Hong Kong Martial Arts between Hollywood and Beijing

Keywords: The Karate Kid | choreography | wu shu | movie fu | real kung fu

 

Dale C. Spencer: From Many Masters to Many Students: YouTube, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, and communities of practice

Keywords: YouTube | Brazilian Jiu Jitsu | communities of practice

 

Mark Walters: Martial Arts Cinema as Post-Capitalist Cinema: Akira Kurosawa, Johnnie To, and Critical Intertextuality

Keywords: Kurosawa | To | neoliberalism | post-capitalist cinema

 

Sixt Wetzler: Myths of the Martial Arts

Keywords: martial arts | belief | myth | reality

 

Luke White: Lau Kar-leung with Walter Benjamin: Storytelling, Authenticity, Film Performance and Martial Arts Pedagogy

Keywords: Lau Kar-leung | Walter Benjamin | Storytelling | Authenticity | Film Performance | Martial Arts Pedagogy

 

Douglas Wile: Asian Martial Arts in the Asian Studies Curriculum

Keywords: martial arts | liberal arts | Asian Studies | cultural studies | higher education

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