Beyond Bruce Lee: Chasing the Dragon Through Film, Philosophy, and Popular Culture
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Movie Posters and Muscle Poses: Generic Ethnicity and Popular Cultural Genres Movie Posters and Muscle Poses: Generic Ethnicity and Popular Cultural Genres
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Bruce Lee and the Black Connection Bruce Lee and the Black Connection
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Bruce Lee and the New Age Spirit of Capitalism Bruce Lee and the New Age Spirit of Capitalism
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The Event of Bruce Lee The Event of Bruce Lee
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Bruce Lee Beyond Belief Bruce Lee Beyond Belief
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Two Bruce Lee Between Popular Culture and Cultural Politics
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Published:26 March 2013
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Abstract
This chapter assesses the discourses on Bruce Lee found in fields concerned with cultural politics, such as cultural studies, media studies, film studies, and ethnic identity studies. In these fields, Bruce Lee ought to be regarded as culturally-politically significant, particularly in terms of his contributions to Asian-American identity politics, diasporic Chinese cultural identity, the deconstruction of white Eurocentric hegemony in Hollywood film and notions of masculinity, his kinetic, symbolic and affective associations with civil rights movements and decolonization struggles, and so on. The chapter clarifies the ways in which all of these assessments of Lee's contribution, intervention, or significance imply one or another relation between culture, media, and politics, with film playing a constitutive articulating role. It indicates the extent to which many such studies of Lee's significance for cultural politics offer celebratory narratives which are slightly problematic in being utopian. It also draws on a Slavoj Žižek's argument about the “strange exchange” between “Asia and Europe”—an exchange which is exemplified in the case of Bruce Lee. It explores the Žižekian critique of the kinds of protests, aims, objects, and achievements implied by those who champion Bruce Lee.
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