Flying Fists!: The Definitive Guide to Western Martial Arts Films of the 1970s - Softcover

Beckett, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1845831985 ISBN 13: 9781845831981

Publisher: Telos Publishing, 2022

Synopsis

It all began in 1973. A television series called Kung Fu was transmitted, and a film called Enter the Dragon was released. Together they revitalised a genre!
This book concerns itself mainly with what occurred after those two events, and how interest in martial arts cinema left Asia and exploded across the Western world throughout the 1970’s, inspiring offerings from countries as far-flung as Italy, the USA, Turkey, Mexico and Australia.
From Wonder Women in April 1973 to The Deadly Art of Survival in 1979, John Beckett has donned his tightest pair of bell-bottomed trousers, and teased his remaining hair into the most impressive of bouffants in order to watch and comment on every Western film featuring martial arts to be released in the decade. Join him as he meets characters like Ron van Clief and Bolo Yeung, faces Golden Vampires as well as Golden Needles, discovers not one but two martial arts versions of The Three Musketeers, and watches more planes flying over Hong Kong Harbour than you can shake a pair of nunchuks at.
Encounter a variety of suave action heroes, a ninja or two and at least one kung-fu fighting ape and prepare to endure the best, and the absolute worst, that martial arts cinema has to offer.
Get ready for the irreverent adventure of a lifetime ...

Edition details

• Publisher: Telos Publishing
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1845831985
• ISBN 13: 9781845831981
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 283