Martial Arts Films: Gender and Nation–ASN

Martial Arts Films: Gender and Nation–ASN
Write an analytical paper discussing TWO films. Topics should follow the suggestions below. And include secondary readings. Use the quotes from reading I have uploaded, NO any resources from other article.

1. Introduction gender and genre:
Film: Enter the Dragon—1973—Robert Clouse;
Reading: “Han’s Island Revisited” Leon Hunt; “Fists of Fury” Yvonne Tasker
2. Dance, Choreography and Marital Arts:
Film: Police Story 3: Supercop—1992—Stanley Tong
Reading: “Asian Martial Arts Cinema…”—Aaron D. Anderson
3. Martial Arts and Manhood:
Film: Karate Kid—1984—John Avildsen
Reading: “An Equivocal Space for the Protestant ethic”—Keiko Nitta

1. In Enter the Dragon Bruce Lee’s body can be viewed as a contested terrain/ a cultural text on which many meanings are inscribed –meanings that defy any simple attempt at categorization. Discuss Yvonne Tasker’s analysis or Leon Hunt’s reading of Bruce Lee’s body/his masculinity in Enter the Dragon. Bring in brief relevant statements from either Tasker or Hunt—short quotes only.

2. Aaron Anderson offers an alternate understanding and reading of Jackie Chan’s “fighting” as dance in Police Story III: Supercop, in the following statement: “In contrast to Western conceptions of movement paradigms, in Chinese martial arts to fight is not always to be male, to yield is not always to be female, and attack and defense are not always opposites” (Anderson 196). In the light of this statement, discuss how masculinity and femininity are portrayed as intertwined/interdependent concepts, especially with reference to Chan and Yeoh’s representations of gender. In your discussion bring in relevant statements from Anderson’s essay—short quotes only.

3. Keiko Nitta analyzes martial arts films as commodities –commodified identity effects to which a “pedagogical function” is attached. She suggests that the media marketplace “requires ethnic works to offer the West lessons about history, reality, and wholesome collective consciousness,” therefore according to Nitta, Miyagi is “chosen as the ideal instructor for American teenagers; as a recovered American military hero” in the film Karate Kid. Discuss Mr. Miyagi and his role in the film Karate Kid and bring in relevant statements from Nitta’s essay—short quotes only.

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