Description |
1 online resource (x, 181 pages) : illustrations |
Contents |
The birth of a TV star: a modern Hong Kong Xiaosheng -- From TV star to film actor: star performance in Hong Kong cinema -- Star endorsement and Hong Kong cinema: the social mobility of Chow Yun-fat -- ̀Come laugh with me': the construction of cosmopolitan residentship in Chow Yun-fat's comedies -- The birth of a Hollywood star: an Asian hero in America -- Middle-aged men in the transnational martial arts cinema: ageing stars and the myth of midlife angst -- Glocalising Chinese stardom: internet publicity and the negotiation of transnational stardom -- Endowing the fatherhood: the power game beyond Chinese cinema |
Summary |
As one of the most popular and versatile Hong Kong film stars, Chow Yun-fat has enjoyed international success over the last four decades. Using Choẃ⁰₉s transnational and trans-regional star persona as a case study, Lin Feng investigates stardom as an agent for mediating the sociocultural construction of Hong Kong and Chinese identities. Through the analysis of Choẃ⁰₉s on- and off-screen star image, the book recognises that a staŕ⁰₉s image is unstable and fragmented across distinct historical junctures, geographic borders and media platforms. Following Choẃ⁰₉s career move from Hong Kong to Hollywood, and then to transnational Chinese cinema, Chow Yun-fat and Territories of Hong Kong Stardom highlights the complex redefinitions of local and global, traditional and modern, and East and West, that Choẃ⁰₉s image has undergone, exploring the nature of Chinese and transnational stardom, the East Asian film industry, and Asian male stardom beyond martial arts and action cinema |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-172), filmography (pages 141-149) and index |
Notes |
Print version record |
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Chow, Yun-fat.
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Chow, Yun-fat fast |
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Motion picture actors and actresses -- Social aspects -- China -- Hong Kong
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Motion picture industry -- China
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Acting & Auditioning.
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Motion picture actors and actresses
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Motion picture industry
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Filmstar
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China
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China -- Hong Kong
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9781474405904 |
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1474405908 |
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