Beyond Bruce Lee

Paul Bowman teaches cultural studies at Cardiff University. He is author of numerous books on visual culture, cultural politics, and popular culture, including Post-Marxism Versus Cultural Studies, Deconstructing Popular Culture, and Theorizing Bruce Lee. He is editor of many collections on film, cultural studies, postcolonialism, and poststructuralism.

• Preface 1. Beyond Bruce Lee 2. Bruce Lee Between Popular Culture and Cultural Politics 3. Bruce Lee Beyond Pedagogy 4. Bruce Lee Film in Cultural Translation 5. Bruce Lee in the Post: Post-Colonial, Post-Modern, Post-Protestant, Post-Human 6. Spectres of Bruce Lee Re-enter the Dragon, Beyond Bruce Lee Bibliography Index

As the titles suggests, this volume takes us 'beyond' Bruce Lee to debates around postmodern and the postcolonial, martial arts philosophy, and popular culture both translated and performed. But Lee is no mere pretext for this fascinating volume-this study also reminds us how exciting and transformative his cultural emergence was and what a complex legacy he has left. Whether your interest is in Zizek or Jeet Kune Do, you'll find something here that will make you think again about this major figure. -- Leon Hunt, Brunel University Beyond Bruce Lee provides nuanced, often brilliantly provocative readings of Bruce Lee as a cultural icon and event. Drawing on a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches, this groundbreaking study performs Lee's injunction to create something new and true by crossing, mixing, and remixing boundaries. In the process, it also gives the reader a fantastic crash course in cultural studies. -- Jane Park, University of Sydney No one writing today has a keener eye for delineating the logic of contemporary cultural politics than Paul Bowman. In Beyond Bruce Lee he powerfully demonstrates how and why Bruce Lee matters to a whole host of fields (cinema studies, cultural studies, politics, philosophy, sociology) without ever limiting himself to writing from the narrow perspective of any one of those disciplines. Regardless of where you position yourself in or out of any of those fields-whether you think you already know Bruce Lee or think you couldn't care less about Bruce Lee-you still must read this book. -- Samuel Chambers, Johns Hopkins University