These Fists Break Bricks

Authors Grady Hendrix and Chris Poggiali, along with publisher Mondo Books, bring you These Fists Break Bricks: How Kung Fu Movies Swept America and Changed the World. New York Times bestselling author Hendrix is widely known for his Bram Stoker Award-winning Paperbacks from Hell, a history of the horror paperback boom of the '70s and '80s, and now with film historian Poggiali, they tell the story of how kung fu movies came to America. When a Hollywood studio released FIVE FINGERS OF DEATH to thrill-seeking Times Square moviegoers in 1973, only a handful of Black and Asian audience members knew the difference between an Iron Fist and an Eagle’s Claw. That changed overnight as FIVE FINGERS kicked off a kung fu craze that would earn millions at the box office, send TV ratings soaring, 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. This lavishly illustrated