American Ninja Movies Explained in These Fists Break Bricks Excerpt

Are you a fan of martial arts films and want to know more about them? Then you owe it to yourself to read Mondo Books' upcoming These Fists Break Bricks: How Kung Fu Movies Swept America and Changed the World. Written by Grady Hendrix (Paperbacks from Hell) and film historian Chris Poggiali, with a foreword from kung-fu cinema remixer and mastermind RZA, the book conveys the outrageous cultural shifts that led to such an appreciation (and appropriation) of martial arts cinema in America, with thoroughly surprising and zippily accessible prose.