The changing charismatic status of the performing male body in Asian martial arts films

Brown, David; Jennings, George; Leledaki, Aspasia

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“…Тем не менее, многие ученые успешно применяют эту концепцию в различных областях, включая лидерство (leadership) (Shamir, 1995;Beyer, 1999;Beyer & Browning, 1999;Erez et al, 2008); менеджмент (Gardner & Avolio, 1998); религию (Lewis, 1996;Junker, 2014) и новые религиозные движения (Locke, 2004;Joosse, 2012Joosse, , 2014Joosse, , 2017; политику (Aberbach, 1996;Tiryakian, 1995;Smith, 2000); боевые искусства (martial cultures) (B. Brown, Jennings & Leledaki, 2008;Brown & Leledaki, 2010;Brown, 2011;Brown & Jennings, 2011); гламур (Thrift, 2010) и спорт (Mullan, 1995;Early, 1996).…”

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Embodying Charismatic Affect(If): the Example of Bruce Lee (Translation into Russian)

Brown

2021

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While the concept of charisma is widely used in the social sciences, its embodied nature is less thoroughly explored and theorised. This paper revisits the key embodied characteristics of Weber's sociology of charisma and re-interprets these using Shilling's (2005, 2013) umbrella notions of the body as a source and location of and means for society as a way of analysing the idea of the charismatic body as a force for social change. It then draws on a range of embodied concepts to illuminate how charisma is significant channel of infra and inter-corporeal affective interaction between “leaders” and their followers. In particular, Freund's (2009) social synaesthesia and bio-agency, Massumi's (2002) perspective of affect and the moving body, Thrift's (2010) charismatic celebrity, allure and glamour, Mellor and Shilling's (1997) sensual solidarities, and Seyfert's (2012) conception of affectif. To develop and illustrate this perspective of the charismatically affective body in action, the life of film star and martial artist Bruce Lee (1940–1973) is utilised.

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Embodying Charismatic Affect(If): the Example of Bruce Lee (Translation into Russian)

Brown

2021

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“…For this reason I do not provide an anthropological analysis of the identity and the social and cultural origins of each Oriental discipline, or each media product. According to Kaplan (2006) and Brown et al (2010), undertaking a cross-cultural analysis requires sensitivity, because "we are forced to read works produced by the Other through the constraint of our frameworks/theories/ideologies" (Kaplan 2006, p.157). The risk is to succumb, on the one hand, to Orientalist discourses, and on the other to our way of decoding these media products.…”

Section: Journal Of Religion Media and Digital Culturementioning

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Manga, Wuxia and (New) Religious Syncretisms: The Orientalization of the Western Imaginary, from Osamu Tezuka to Contemporary Oriental Disciplines

Porrovecchio

2013

Journal of Religion, Media and Digital Culture

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A new interest in various forms of spirituality and religiosity is emerging in some subcultures of contemporary society. This tendency can be seen as an indicator of an Orientalization process that affects everyday life and lifestyles, and it can be read as a symptom of a crisis in the paradigm of Western Modernity, which is changing the relationship between culture and nature, the central role played by the rational positivist paradigm, and ideas of body, space and time.Oriental disciplines and martial arts are a significant case study for the purpose of analyzing the ongoing Orientalization process. These highly ritualized practices have become part of many people’s daily life and have affected their way of dressing, as well as the way they arrange furniture at home and the way they make decisions that involve their diet and body care. These practices may also affect people’s identities by changing their values, ethics and morality.To explore the Orientalization process, I first introduce some features of the diffusion of the “mythical Orients” in the Western imaginary since the sixties. In particular, I focus on some media products (for example, mangas and wuxia movies) that played an important role in arousing interest in Other cultures. In this stage I will refer to some media theories, in particular to Gerbner's cultivation theory and to the medial socialization effect.In a second step I focus on the imaginary embodied in some Oriental disciplines and martial arts. I refer to some results of a research that I am conducting in some martial arts gyms, starting from my experience as an instructor. In that context I performed an ethnographic study, gathering several in-depth interviews with masters, beginners, fighters, experts and therapists, and analysing the interactions within some online communities (virtual ethnography). This last method allowed me to come back to the first step, and to focus on how some features of the media imaginary are mediated through the interactions within the virtual communities.

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“…More specifically, the strategic appeal to Western scientific authority has the unintended consequence of disembedding these forms of charismatic and traditional authority and gradually replacing them with a scientifically validated authority that moves the form of authority much closer to Weber's idea of legal- 'Resting on the belief in the legality of patterns of normative rules and the right of those elevated to authority under such rules to issue commands.' rational or bureaucratic authority (Brown et al, 2008;Villamón et al, 2004; see also Turner, 2003). As a consequence, the authority in and of the teachers themselves can more easily be called into question.…”

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Eastern Movement Forms as Body-Self Transforming Cultural Practices in the West: Towards a Sociological Perspective

Brown

Leledaki

2010

Cultural Sociology

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Unlike the spectacular diffusion of modern Western sporting forms, Eastern movement forms (martial arts, Eastern dance, Yoga, meditation, Tai Chi Chuan, Qigong, etc.) have been quietly entering the fabric of everyday Western life over the past few decades. Adopting a structurationist approach that seeks to retain relationships between macro-, meso- and micro-levels of culture, this article considers data gathered from a range of long-term Western practitioners of a variety of Eastern movement forms in juxtaposition to broader media and documentary data also gathered on these practices. The analysis explores three Western social forces (Orientalism, reflexive modernization and commodification.) identified as acting on these movement forms in ways that intensify the process of (re)invention of tradition with particular transformative tensions. In conclusion, we identify three dispositions (preservationism, conservationism, and modernization) emerging from our analysis of these movement forms that seem to drive how individuals respond to the transformative Western social forces highlighted.

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The changing charismatic status of the performing male body in Asian martial arts films

Cited by 15 publications

References 12 publications

Embodying Charismatic Affect(If): the Example of Bruce Lee (Translation into Russian)

Embodying Charismatic Affect(If): the Example of Bruce Lee (Translation into Russian)

Manga, Wuxia and (New) Religious Syncretisms: The Orientalization of the Western Imaginary, from Osamu Tezuka to Contemporary Oriental Disciplines

Eastern Movement Forms as Body-Self Transforming Cultural Practices in the West: Towards a Sociological Perspective

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