Chow Yun-fat and Territories of Hong Kong Stardom - Softcover

Feng, Lin

 
9781474437516: Chow Yun-fat and Territories of Hong Kong Stardom
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1474437516 ISBN 13: 9781474437516
Verlag: Edinburgh University Press, 2018

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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 Chow’s 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 Chow’s on- and off-screen star image, the book recognises that a star’s image is unstable and fragmented across distinct historical junctures, geographic borders and media platforms. Following Chow’s 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 Chow’s 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.

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Lin Feng is Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Leicester.

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‘This is a well-focused, highly original and impressively detailed analysis of one of the world’s leading Chinese film stars in terms of the shifting meanings of celebrity cultures and transnational media.’Julian Stringer, University of NottinghamAs one of the most popular and versatile Hong Kong film stars, Chow Yun-fat has enjoyed international success over the last four decades. Using Chow’s 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 Chow’s on- and off-screen star image, the book recognises that a star’s image is unstable and fragmented across distinct historical junctures, geographic borders and media platforms.Following Chow’s 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 Chow’s image has undergone. At the same time, it explores the nature of Chinese and transnational stardom, the East Asian film industry, and Asian male stardom beyond martial arts and action cinema.Lin Feng is the subject coordinator of Chinese Studies at the University of Hull.Cover image: Chow Yun-fat in The Corruptor, James Foley, 1999 © New Line/The Kobal CollectionCover design:[EUP logo]edinburghuniversitypress.comISBN 978-1-4744-0589-8Barcode

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This is a well-focused, highly original and impressively detailed analysis of one of the world s leading Chinese film stars in terms of the shifting meanings of celebrity cultures and transnational media. Julian Stringer, University of NottinghamAs one of the most popular and versatile Hong Kong film stars, Chow Yun-fat has enjoyed international success over the last four decades. Using Chow s 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 Chow s on- and off-screen star image, the book recognises that a star s image is unstable and fragmented across distinct historical junctures, geographic borders and media platforms.Following Chow s 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 Chow s image has undergone. At the same time, it explores the nature of Chinese and transnational stardom, the East Asian film industry, and Asian male stardom beyond martial arts and action cinema.Lin Feng is the subject coordinator of Chinese Studies at the University of Hull.Cover image: Chow Yun-fat in The Corruptor, James Foley, 1999 © New Line/The Kobal CollectionCover design:[EUP logo]edinburghuniversitypress.comISBN 978-1-4744-0589-8Barcode

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Verlag
Edinburgh University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2018
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1474437516
ISBN 13 
9781474437516
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
192
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