Author | : Jim Di Bartolo |
Publisher | : Graphix |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : JUVENILE FICTION |
ISBN | : 9781338134117 |
Graphix's first biography -- telling the astonishing story of martial arts legend Bruce Lee.
Author | : Jim Di Bartolo |
Publisher | : Graphix |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : JUVENILE FICTION |
ISBN | : 9781338134117 |
Graphix's first biography -- telling the astonishing story of martial arts legend Bruce Lee.
Author | : Matthew Polly |
Publisher | : Simon & Schuster |
Total Pages | : 656 |
Release | : 2019-06-04 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1501187635 |
The “definitive” (The New York Times) biography of film legend Bruce Lee, who made martial arts a global phenomenon, bridged the divide between eastern and western cultures, and smashed long-held stereotypes of Asians and Asian-Americans. Forty-five years after Bruce Lee’s sudden death at age thirty-two, journalist and bestselling author Matthew Polly has written the definitive account of Lee’s life. It’s also one of the only accounts; incredibly, there has never been an authoritative biography of Lee. Following a decade of research that included conducting more than one hundred interviews with Lee’s family, friends, business associates, and even the actress in whose bed Lee died, Polly has constructed a complex, humane portrait of the icon. Polly explores Lee’s early years as a child star in Hong Kong cinema; his actor father’s struggles with opium addiction and how that turned Bruce into a troublemaking teenager who was kicked out of high school and eventually sent to America to shape up; his beginnings as a martial arts teacher, eventually becoming personal instructor to movie stars like James Coburn and Steve McQueen; his struggles as an Asian-American actor in Hollywood and frustration seeing role after role he auditioned for go to a white actors in eye makeup; his eventual triumph as a leading man; his challenges juggling a sky-rocketing career with his duties as a father and husband; and his shocking end that to this day is still shrouded in mystery. Polly breaks down the myths surrounding Bruce Lee and argues that, contrary to popular belief, he was an ambitious actor who was obsessed with the martial arts—not a kung-fu guru who just so happened to make a couple of movies. This is an honest, revealing look at an impressive yet imperfect man whose personal story was even more entertaining and inspiring than any fictional role he played onscreen.
Author | : Linda Lee |
Publisher | : Black Belt Communications |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780897501217 |
Linda Lee chronicles the life of her husband, martial artist Bruce Lee, focusing on their life together and her husband's film career.
Author | : Davis Miller |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 161 |
Release | : 2012-01-31 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 144811215X |
Just weeks after completing Enter the Dragon, his first vehicle for a worldwide audience, Bruce Lee - the self-proclaimed world's fittest man - died mysteriously at the age of thirty-two. The film has since grossed over $500 million, making it one of the most profitable in the history of cinema, and Lee has acquired almost mythic status. Lee's was a flawed, complex yet singular talent. He revolutionized the martial arts and forever changed action movie-making. As in The Tao of Muhammad Ali, Davis Miller brilliantly combines biography - the fullest, most unflinching and revelatory to date - with his own coming-of-age autobiography. The result is a unique and compelling book.
Author | : Paul Bowman |
Publisher | : Applause Theatre & Cinema Book Publishers |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Actors |
ISBN | : 9781476886848 |
Explores the life and many careers of Bruce Lee, including his inspirations and his family, and features rare and previously unpublished photographs as well as removable facsimile documents from the Lee family archives such as handwritten letters and poems, hand-drawn illustrations, and Lee's observations and philosophy of martial arts.
Author | : Bruce Lee |
Publisher | : Black Belt Communications |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Self-Help |
ISBN | : 9780897500531 |
Part of the Bruce Lee's Fighting Method series, this book teaches how to perform jeet kune do's devastating strikes and exploit an opponent's weaknesses with crafty counterattacks like finger jabs and spin kicks.
Author | : Shannon Lee |
Publisher | : Flatiron Books |
Total Pages | : 178 |
Release | : 2020-10-06 |
Genre | : Self-Help |
ISBN | : 1250206693 |
Bruce Lee’s daughter illuminates her father’s most powerful life philosophies—demonstrating how martial arts are a perfect metaphor for personal growth, and how we can practice those teachings every day. "Empty your mind; be formless, shapeless like water." Bruce Lee is a cultural icon, renowned the world over for his martial arts and film legacy. But Lee was also a deeply philosophical thinker, learning at an early age that martial arts are more than just an exercise in physical discipline—they are an apt metaphor for living a fully realized life. Now, in Be Water, My Friend, Lee’s daughter Shannon shares the concepts at the core of his philosophies, showing how they can serve as tools of personal growth and self-actualization. Each chapter brings a lesson from Bruce Lee’s teachings, expanding on the foundation of his iconic “be water” philosophy. Over the course of the book, we discover how being like water allows us to embody fluidity and naturalness in life, bringing us closer to our essential flowing nature and our ability to be powerful, self-expressed, and free. Through previously untold stories from her father’s life and from her own journey in embodying these lessons, Shannon presents these philosophies in tangible, accessible ways. With Bruce Lee’s words as a guide, she encourages readers to pursue their essential selves and apply these ideas and practices to their everyday lives—whether in learning new things, overcoming obstacles, or ultimately finding their true path. Be Water, My Friend is an inspirational invitation to us all, a gentle call to action to consider our lives with new eyes. It is also a testament to how one man's exploration and determination transcended time and place to ignite our imaginations—and to inspire many around the world to transform their lives.
Author | : Daryl Joji Maeda |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2024-04 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1479830739 |
Highlights Bruce Lee’s influence beyond martial arts and film An Asian and Asian American icon of unimaginable stature and influence, Bruce Lee revolutionized the martial arts by combining influences drawn from around the world. Uncommonly determined, physically gifted, and artistically brilliant, Lee rose to fame as part of a wave of transpacific globalization that bridged the nearly seven thousand miles between Hong Kong and California. Like Water unpacks Lee’s global impact, linking his legendary status as a martial artist, actor, and director to his continual traversals across the newly interconnected Asia and America. Daryl Joji Maeda’s multifaceted account of Bruce Lee’s legacy uniquely traces how movements and migrations across the Pacific Ocean structured the cultures Bruce Lee inherited, the milieu he occupied, the martial art he developed, the films he made, and the world he left behind. A unique blend of cultural history and biography, Like Water unearths the cultural strands that Lee intertwined in his rise to a new kind of global stardom. Moving from the gold rush in California and the British occupation of Hong Kong, to the Cold War and the deployment of American troops across Asia, Maeda builds depth and complexity to this larger-than-life figure. His cultural chronology of Bruce Lee reveals Lee to be both a product of his time and a harbinger of a more connected future. Nearly half a century after his tragic death, Bruce Lee remains an inspiring symbol of innovation and determination, with an enduring legacy as the first Asian American global superstar.