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  • The Sublime Object of Orientalism

    Asian Physical Culture in the West

    de Paul Bowman ...
    The Sublime Object of Orientalism proposes that globalised Asian physical cultural practices such as taiji, qigong, yoga, and meditation can be understood by examining the intimate connection between Western orientalism and the Romantic aesthetic notion of the sublime. The book recasts ‘orientalist physical culture’ as practices animated by the sublime and argues that this relationship is stronger ... Leer más

    $573 MXN

  • The Invention of Martial Arts

    Popular Culture Between Asia and America

    de Paul Bowman ...
    Through popular movies starring Bruce Lee and songs like the disco hit "Kung Fu Fighting," martial arts have found a central place in the Western cultural imagination. But what would 'martial arts' be without the explosion of media texts and images that brought it to a wide audience in the late 1960s and early 1970s? In this examination of the media history of what we now call martial arts, author ... Leer más

    $716 MXN

  • You Will Never Be One of Us

    A Teacher, a Texas Town, and the Rural Roots of Radical Conservatism

    During the spring semester of 1975, Wayne Woodward, a popular young English teacher at La Plata Junior High School in Hereford, Texas, was unceremoniously fired. His offense? Founding a local chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). Believing he had been unjustly targeted, Woodward sued the school district. You Will Never Be One of Us chronicles the circumstances surrounding Woodward ... Leer más

    $373 MXN

  • The Rey Chow Reader

    de Rey Chow ...
    Rey Chow is arguably one of the most prominent intellectuals working in the humanities today. Characteristically confronting both entrenched and emergent issues in the interlocking fields of literature, film and visual studies, sexuality and gender, postcolonialism, ethnicity, and cross-cultural politics, her works produce surprising connections among divergent topics at the same time as they ... Leer más

    $545 MXN

  • Ranciere and Film

    Edición de Paul Bowman ...
    Series series Critical Connections

    $543 MXN

  • The Martial Arts Studies Reader

    Edición de Paul Bowman ...
    Series series Martial Arts Studies
    A decade ago, the question was ‘could martial arts ever be studied academically?’ Today we are witnessing the global emergence and rapid proliferation of Martial Arts Studies – an exciting and dynamic new field that studies all aspects of martial arts in culture, history, and society. In recent years there have been a proliferation of studies of martial arts and race, gender, class, nation, ... Leer más

    $800 MXN

  • Mythologies of Martial Arts

    de Paul Bowman ...
    Series series Martial Arts Studies
    What do martial arts signify today? What do they mean for East-West cross cultural exchanges? How does the representation of martial arts in popular culture impact on the wide world? What is authentic practice? What does it all mean?From Kung Fu to Jiujitsu and from Bruce Lee to The Karate Kid, Mythologies of Martial Arts explores the key myths and ideologies in martial arts in contemporary ... Leer más

    $785 MXN

  • Martial Arts Studies

    Disrupting Disciplinary Boundaries

    de Paul Bowman ...
    Series series
    The phrase “martial arts studies” is increasingly circulating as a term to describe a new field of interest. But many academic fields including history, philosophy, anthropology, and Area studies already engage with martial arts in their own particular way. Therefore, is there really such a thing as a unique field of martial arts studies?Martial Arts Studies is the first book to engage directly ... Leer más

    $696 MXN

  • Reading Rey Chow

    Visuality, Postcoloniality, Ethnicity, Sexuality

    de Paul Bowman ...
    This is the first book-length study of the groundbreaking work of Rey Chow, whose work has transformed the fields of postcolonialism, cultural studies, film, ethnicity and gender. It describes and explains the features and the breadth of Chow's interventions and illustrates Chow’s arguments by way of the analysis of a range of engaging examples drawn from the fields of film, popular music, ... Leer más

    $781 MXN

  • Le Discours sur l'Eloquence sacrée à l'époque romantique : Rhétorique, apologétique, herméneutique (1777-1851)

    Series series Cahiers d'Humanisme et Renaissance
    Cette étude d'un domaine peu connu de l'histoire littéraire a pour objet les nombreux textes qui traitent de l'éloquence sacrée entre 1777 et 1851. Après avoir dégagé l'évolution de ce genre, l'auteur analyse les problèmes que pose l'éloquence sacrée: la tradition est reprise à bien des égards, mais l'étude des figures et des loci est peu à peu abandonnée en faveur d'un souci d'efficacité ... Leer más

    $229 MXN

  • Reading Ranciere

    Critical Dissensus

    Edición de Paul Bowman, Richard Stamp ...
    Over the past 40 years, Jacques Rancière's work has defined itself through a remarkable set of philosophical differences in relation to other key figures working in the fields of politics, philosophy and aesthetics. There have been significant philosophical, theoretical and aesthetic disagreements with influential figures in contemporary thought, including Althusser, Bourdieu, Derrida, Agamben, ... Leer más

    $574 MXN

  • Beyond Bruce Lee

    Chasing the Dragon Through Film, Philosophy, and Popular Culture

    de Paul Bowman ...
    In order to understand Bruce Lee, we must look beyond Bruce Lee to the artist's intricate cultural and historical contexts. This work begins by contextualising Lee, examining his films and martial arts work, and his changing cultural status within different times and places. The text examines Bruce Lee's films and philosophy in relation to the popular culture and cultural politics of the 1960s and ... Leer más

    $498 MXN