A View from the Bottom offers a major critical reassessment of male effeminacy and its
racialization in visual culture. Examining portrayals of Asian and Asian American men in …

This is the first comprehensive, fully-researched account of the historical and contemporary
development of the traditional martial arts genre in the Chinese cinema known as wuxia …

Discussing the mainland Chinese web series Guardian, adapted from a homoerotic “boys'
love” novel, this paper examines the practices and discourses of producers, viewers, and the …

Recent trends in popular culture suggest an emerging discourse of professional masculinity
in crisis. This essay examines two illustrative films, Fight Club and In the Company of Men …

Beyond Bombshells analyzes the cultural importance of strong women in a variety of current
media forms. Action heroines are now more popular in movies, comic books, television, and …

If 1997 was a major reason for the international film community to pay attention to Hong
Kong cinema in the last few years, Hong Kong cinema after 1997 is doomed to be out of the …

Jet Li is arguably the best martial arts actor alive, and his career has crossed numerous
cultural and geographic boundaries, from mainland China to Hong Kong, from Hollywood to …

At the core of Martial Arts Cinema and Hong Kong Modernity: Aesthetics, Representation,
Circulation is a fascinating paradox: the martial arts film, long regarded as a vehicle of …

Wushu, also known as Kung Fu, is a traditional Chinese martial art. It also symbolises the
strength of the Chinese and their pride in their history. Wushu came to be associated with …

In August 2010, the sixty-four-year-old Hollywood icon Sylvester Stallone premiered his
latest project The Expendables, an action-adventure film starring a pantheon of “tough guys” …