These Fists Break Bricks

These Fists Break Bricks How Kung Fu Movies Swept America and Changed the World

Paperback (27 Jan 2022)

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Publisher's Synopsis

When a major Hollywood studio released Five Fingers of Death in 1973, only a handful of Black and Asian American audience members knew the difference between an Iron Fist and an Eagle's Claw. That changed overnight as kung fu movies kicked off a craze that would earn millions at the box office, send TV ratings soaring, sell hundreds of thousands of video tapes, influence the birth of hip hop, reshape the style of action we see in movies today, and introduce America to some of the biggest non-white stars to ever hit motion picture screens. Here, for the first time, is the full uncensored story.

Book information

ISBN: 9781736891605
Publisher: Scb Wholesale
Imprint: SCB
Pub date:
DEWEY: 791.436579
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 432
Weight: 1633g
Height: 279mm
Width: 203mm
Spine width: 24mm