Now it can be told…the true story of how martial arts movies roundhouse kicked America into the future!
In this lavishly illustrated book, featuring hundreds of original posters and ads — many of which have never been seen before — authors Grady Hendrix and Chris Poggiali reveal the history of the cultural hurricane that raged for 15 brief years before greed, infomercials, and racist fearmongering shut it all down. Along the way, we’ve unearthed stories of CIA agents secretly funding karate movies to root out communists, the New York Times starting a fear campaign about Black “karate gangs,” an 11-year-old boy who not only created the first fan edit but turned it into a worldwide moneymaker, the history of Black martial arts in America, and how the death of Bruce Lee introduced the world to Bruce Li, Bruce Le, Brute Lee, Dragon Lee, Bruce Lo, Judy Lee and many others.
Grady Hendrix is an award-winning, New York Times bestselling author and one of the founders of the New York Asian Film Festival. He’s covered the Asian film industry for Variety, Sight & Sound, and Film Comment among other publications, and has worked extensively in the Asian film industry.
Chris Poggiali is a librarian, writer and film historian who edited the fanzine Temple of Schlock from 1987-1991, and brought it back as a blog in 2008. He has written about film for numerous magazines, websites, and DVDs/Blu-rays.
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