Martial arts and media culture in the information era: glocalization, heterotopia, hyperculture

Trausch, Tim 2019. Martial arts and media culture in the information era: glocalization, heterotopia, hyperculture. Martial Arts Studies 7 , pp. 60-69. 10.18573/mas.78

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Abstract

This chapter is derived from the Editor’s Introduction to the edited collection Chinese Martial Arts and Media Culture: Global Perspectives [Rowman & Littlefield International, 2018]. The collection explores how narratives and aesthetics of the martial arts genre(s) are shaped and imbued with meaning in changing social, cultural, and media arrangements. Drawing from a range of recent media texts, this introductory chapter discusses the global circulation of signs and images of (Chinese) martial arts and their engagement with alleged national, cultural, textual, generic, and media borders. It argues that these texts reflect and (re)produce three paradigms of martial arts and media culture in the information age: glocalization, heterotopia, and hyperculture. What connects these three notions is that, rather than erase difference or establish it as something substantial and dividing, they engage with difference and otherness in inclusive and transformative ways.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Published Online
Status:	Published
Schools:	Journalism, Media and Culture
Subjects:	G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GV Recreation Leisure H Social Sciences > HM Sociology H Social Sciences > HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform N Fine Arts > NX Arts in general Z Bibliography. Library Science. Information Resources > ZA Information resources
Publisher:	Cardiff University Press
ISSN:	2057-5696
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	5 February 2019
Date of Acceptance:	30 December 2018
Last Modified:	05 May 2023 09:20
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/119234

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