Legacies of the Drunken Master: Politics of the Body in Hong Kong Kung Fu Comedy Films

by Luke White

Book Overview

In 1978 the films Snake in the Eagle's Shadow and Drunken Master, both starring a young Jackie Chan, caused a stir in the Hong Kong cinema industry and changed the landscape of martial arts cinema. Mixing virtuoso displays of acrobatic kung fu with knockabout humor to huge box office success, they broke the mold of the tragic and heroic martial arts film and sparked not only a wave of imitations, but also a much longer trend for kung fu comedies that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824889711
• ISBN13: 9780824889715
• Release Date: January 2021
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"