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Have Hong Kong martial arts films managed to rise from “low” art to “high” art? Discuss using pre-1985 and post 1995 examples. Culture when divided by the term “high” and “low” is usually meant to signify, the audience that has embraced the film is not always the audience that the work has been created for. High and low culture is usually consumed by the “high” class and “low” classes. Often it is argued by those of low culture that high culture is just a label made by those of high culture to alienate or place themselves above those of “low” class. Often stating that those in the high classes making themselves feel more important or different to the “masses”. Low class is often considered as the more popular, numbers game end of film where dollars are spent in advertising to make sure dollars are made at the box office. When a form of entertainment is looked at from it’s native market in this case Hong Kong, china and maybe the rest of Asia and the other possible markets this case the western world the U.S. in this case non-Chinese speaking countries. It takes on a different form. Because it was not so accessible to everyone it took on a specialty market role at first in the west r