Entry Genre/Form Term

Number of records used in: 25

001 - CONTROL NUMBER

• control field: 6006

003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER

• control field: DLC

005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION

• control field: 20250627153031.0

008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS

• fixed length control field: 110507|| anznnbabn |a ana

010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER

• LC control number: gf2011026388
• Canceled/invalid LC control number: sh2007025340

040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE

• Original cataloging agency: DLC
• Language of cataloging: eng
• Transcribing agency: DLC
• Subject heading/thesaurus conventions: lcgft
• Modifying agency: DLC

155 ## - HEADING--GENRE/FORM TERM

• Genre/form term: Martial arts films

455 ## - SEE FROM TRACING--GENRE/FORM TERM

• Genre/form term: Chop-chop films

455 ## - SEE FROM TRACING--GENRE/FORM TERM

• Genre/form term: Chop-'em-sock-'em films

455 ## - SEE FROM TRACING--GENRE/FORM TERM

• Genre/form term: Chopsocky films

455 ## - SEE FROM TRACING--GENRE/FORM TERM

• Genre/form term: Kung fu films

455 ## - SEE FROM TRACING--GENRE/FORM TERM

• Genre/form term: Spaghetti Easterns

555 ## - SEE ALSO FROM TRACING--GENRE/FORM TERM

• Control subfield: g
• Genre/form term: Action and adventure films

670 ## - SOURCE DATA FOUND

• Source citation: Singleton, R.S. Filmmaker's dict., c2000
• Information found: (martial-arts film: Movie featuring numerous fight scenes involving various Asian forms of fighting using the hands and feet, such as karate and jujitsu)

670 ## - SOURCE DATA FOUND

• Source citation: History of the American cinema, c1990:
• Information found: v. 9, p. 259 (three exploitation genres in ascending order of market strength: black action film, martial arts film, and feature-length hardcore porno film) pp. 266-267 (category: Martial Arts, or Kung Fu; martial arts film; kung fu films; kung fu movies; martial arts genre; an ethnic action genre; Japan's martial arts films tended to be more violent than their Chinese counterparts; occasionally combined with other exploitation genres)

670 ## - SOURCE DATA FOUND

• Source citation: The moving image genre-form guide, via WWW, Mar. 16, 2001
• Information found: (Martial arts. Fictional work designed to showcase the hero's athletic agility and ability to turn his body into a weapon. This skill has been achieved through his dedication to, and personification of, Oriental teachings about physical and mental discipline, allowing the hero to execute fast, fluid, but spare movements that knock out or kill his numerous adversaries and allow him to triumph over formidable odds. The hero's adversaries range from criminals to supernatural beings. The emphasis on the actual choreographed movement dominates the narrative, which can be set in historical to modern times, in the East or the West. Used for Kung fu)

670 ## - SOURCE DATA FOUND

• Source citation: Yee, M.M. Moving image materials, 1988
• Information found: (Martial arts drama. Use for fictional genre films and programs which consist largely of choreographed fight sequences employing martial arts which originally developed in the Orient (e.g. karate, kung fu, eastern sword-play techniques, etc.). UF Chinese action drama, Oriental action drama, Swordplay drama, Swordsmen in motion pictures, Kung fu drama, Oriental swordplay drama, Chinese swordplay drama, Jidai-geki, Chambara, Samurai drama, Samurai films, Spaghetti easterns)

670 ## - SOURCE DATA FOUND

• Source citation: López, D. Films by genre, c1993
• Information found: (Kung fu film (Chop-chop Film, Chop-'em-Sock-'em Flick, Chopsocky Picture): An extremely popular genre in the early to mid-seventies, the kung fu films, originating in Hong Kong and later imitated in other countries, came and went as the repetitive and familiar plots of this type of martial arts film saturated the market. The plots of the kung fu films frequently center on the theme of revenge, the hero often having to accept reluctantly the task of avenging some injustice or the death of his/her mentor, teacher, family or friends.)