Lo, V;
(2019)
Dead or Alive: martial arts and the forensic gaze.
In: Lo, V and Berry, C and Liping, G, (eds.)
Film and the Chinese Medical Humanities.
(pp. 12-34).
Routledge: London, UK.
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Abstract
The contemporary worldwide addiction to the forensic-medical gaze, the power to see both the patterns of brutality inscribed on a body and the moral truths about whodunit, how and why they did it, and sometimes with whom, took a fascinating turn in Peter Chan’s (Chen Kexin 陳可辛) Chinese martial arts film Dragon (2011), hereafter referred to by its Chinese title Wuxia 武侠, ‘Martial Chivalry’. In a brilliant twenty-first century appropriation of both ancient Chinese medical traditions and the much-loved forensic detective genre, Wuxia pushes the martial arts epic in a new direction with a minute visual analysis of the anatomy and physiology of the martial arts body.
| Type: | Book chapter |
|---|---|
| Title: | Dead or Alive: martial arts and the forensic gaze |
| ISBN-13: | 9781138580299 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.4324/9780429507465 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429507465 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of History |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10085480 |
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