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Author Feng, Lin (Of University of Hull), author.

Title Chow Yun-fat and territories of Hong Kong stardom / Lin Feng
Published Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2017]
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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
Subject Chow, Yun-fat.
SUBJECT Chow, Yun-fat fast
Subject Motion picture actors and actresses -- Social aspects -- China -- Hong Kong
Motion picture industry -- China
PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.
PERFORMING ARTS -- Acting & Auditioning.
Motion picture actors and actresses
Motion picture industry
Filmstar
China
China -- Hong Kong
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781474405904
1474405908