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1. Davide Giuriato
2. Paul Bowman

Infinitely Determinable – Children and Childhood in Modern Literature

Davide Giuriato is professor of modern German literature at the University of Zurich. Paul Bowman studied history and philosophy in Sydney and Berlin before – on the cusp to the new millennium – turning his attention to translation.

1. Paul Bowman

The Invention of Martial Arts

Author Paul Bowman recasts our understanding of the history of martial arts, showing how Western media representations in the 1970s not only popularized the concept but actively created 'martial arts' as a recognizable idea and cultural phenomenon.

1. Paul Bowman

Theorizing Bruce Lee

"Bruce Lee is a complex and contradictory figure, and it’s a formidable task to take on the multiple facets of his legacy – fighter, film star, philosopher, nationalist, multiculturalist, innovator. With an approach as multidisciplinary and iconoclastic as Lee’s approach to martial arts, Bowman provides an original and exhilarating account of Lee as ‘cultural event’. No one has done a better job of explaining why the martial arts ‘legend’ remains such an important and provocative figure." – Leon Hunt, Brunel University, author of Kung Fu Cult Masters: From Bruce Lee to Crouching Tiger"Taking on Martin Heidegger and Slavoj Žižek as well as drawing on Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Guy Debord, Jacques Rancière, Rey Chow, and Stuart Hall, among others, Bowman shows how Bruce Lee ‘speaks’ to the philosophical debates that frame our understanding of global popular culture today. Although Bowman may not be able to resolve the philosophical battles surrounding our ability to ‘know’ Bruce Lee, he does a remarkable job of articulating why Bruce Lee remains an essential force within not only world cinema but global culture – both ‘high’ and ‘low.’ Armoured with his philosophical nunchakus, Bowman goes to battle with anyone who may doubt Lee’s ongoing importance, and this book will undoubtedly become essential reading for everyone (from philosopher to kung fu practitioner) interested in popular culture and Asian cinema." – Gina Marchetti, University of Hong Kong, author of Romance and the “Yellow Peril”: Race, Sex and Discursive Strategies in Hollywood Fiction and From Tian’anmen to Times Square: Transnational China and the Chinese Diaspora on Global Screens, 1989-1997

1. Paul Bowman

Deconstructing Martial Arts

1. Rey Chow

The Rey Chow Reader

Paul Bowman teaches cultural studies at Cardiff University. He is the author of Post-Marxism versus Cultural Studies, Deconstructing Popular Culture, and Theorizing Bruce Lee. He is also the editor of several books and journal issues, including The Truth of Zizek, Reading Ranciere, and, most recently, special issues of the journals Social Semiotics and Postcolonial Studies, focusing on the work of Rey Chow.

1. Paul Bowman
2. Richard Stamp

The Truth of Žižek

Slavoj Zizek is widely regarded as one of the world's most important contemporary thinkers. This collection of essays from an international team of Zizekian scholars addresses a range of Zizek's theoretical interventions, assessing the political, philosophical, psychoanalytical, cultural and institutional stakes of his work.