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 ...(展开全部)

古龙（1937-1985），本名熊耀华，原籍江西。古龙毕业于台湾淡江大学外文系，是台湾著名新派武侠小说作家。他从1960年创作《苍穹神剑》始，一生共写了近70部武侠小说，影响巨大。其代表作有《风云第一刀》、《绝代双骄》、《楚留香传奇》系列、《陆小风传奇》系列、《萧十一郎》、《七种武器》系列、《白玉老虎》、《流星·蝴蝶·剑》等。

Known in the West primarily through poorly subtitled films, Chinese martial arts fiction is one of the most iconic and yet the most understudied form of modern sinophone creativity. Current scholarship on the subject is characterized by three central assumptions that I will argue against in this book: first, that martial arts fiction is the representation of a bodily spectacle ...(展开全部)

=.=！我只管写，其他的我不管……

=.=！我只管写，其他的我不管……

丹尼斯·J·斯波勒，享誉国际的教授、学者、作家与艺术家。他在中央密歇根大学获演讲和戏剧专业学士学位，同时辅修音乐；在爱荷华大学获舞台设计与技术专业的硕士学位。他曾担任宾州州立大学、亚利桑那大学等美国多所学校的终身教授、系主任或院长。教学经验包括人文与美术等 多种学科领域。他还曾从事专业的演唱事业，设计舞台布景与照明作品，有《感知艺术》《穿越艺术的现实》《创作的冲动：艺术品介绍》《视觉艺术指南》等多种著作出版，并有大量期刊文章与诗歌作品。 译者 史梦阳，毕业于北京外国语大学，翻译专业硕士。与他人合译《舞蹈学导论》《代寻旧日时光》，独立翻译《我不要我们永远在一起》。

When it first appeared in 1964, Stuart Hall and Paddy Whannel's The Popular Arts opened up an almost unprecedented field of analysis and inquiry into contemporary popular culture. Counter to the prevailing views of the time, Hall and Whannel recognized popular culture's social importance and considered it worthy of serious study. In their analysis of everything from Westerns an...(展开全部)

Chinese martial arts novels from the late nineteenth century are filled with a host of suggestive sounds. Characters cuss and curse in colorful dialect accents, vendor calls ring out from bustling marketplaces, and martial arts action scenes come to life with the loud clash of swords and the sounds of bodies colliding. What is the purpose of these sounds, and what is their hist...(展开全部)

Is there a moment in history when a work receives its ideal interpretation? Or is negotiation always required to preserve the past and accommodate the present? The freedom of interpretation, Charles Rosen suggests in these sparkling explorations of music and literature, exists in a delicate balance with fidelity to the identity of the original work. Rosen cautions us to avoid d...(展开全部)

Humanities through the Arts is intended for introductory-level, interdisciplinary courses offered across the curriculum in the Humanities, Philosophy, Art, English, Music, and Education departments. Arranged topically by art form from painting, sculpture, photography, and architecture to literature, music, theater, film, and dance. This beautifully illustrated text helps studen...(展开全部)