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Chow Yun-fat and Territories of Hong Kong Stardom / Lin Feng.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resource (192 p.) : 10 B/W illustrationsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781474405898
  • 9781474405904
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.43028092 23
LOC classification:
  • PN2878.C62 F46 2017
  • PN2878.C62 F46 2017
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Figures and Tables -- Note on the Text -- Introduction -- Part I From a Hong Kong Citizen to a Cosmopolitan Resident: A Face of Social Mobility in Hong Kong between 1973 and 1995 -- 1 The Birth of a TV Star: A Modern Hong Kong Xiaosheng -- 2 From TV Star to Film Actor: Star Performance in Hong Kong Cinema -- 3 Star Endorsement and Hong Kong Cinema: The Social Mobility of Chow Yun-fat -- 4 'Come Laugh with Me': The Construction of Cosmopolitan Residentship in Chow Yun-fat's Comedies -- Part II From an Expatriate Hong Kong Star to a Returning HKSAR Star: A Chinese Icon in Transnational Cinema from 1995 Onwards -- 5 The Birth of a Hollywood Star: An Asian Hero in America -- 6 middle-aged men Middle-aged Men in the Transnational Martial Arts Cinema: Ageing Stars and the Myth of Midlife Angst -- 7 Glocalising Chinese Stardom: Internet Publicity and the Negotiation of Transnational Stardom -- 8 Endowing the Fatherhood: The Power Game beyond Chinese Cinema -- Conclusion -- Appendix I General Filmography -- Appendix II Chow Yun-fat's Filmography -- Appendix III Chow Yun-fat's TV Works -- English-Chinese Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: Examines Chow Yun-fat's role in mediating Chinese identities across cultural industriesAs 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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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Figures and Tables -- Note on the Text -- Introduction -- Part I From a Hong Kong Citizen to a Cosmopolitan Resident: A Face of Social Mobility in Hong Kong between 1973 and 1995 -- 1 The Birth of a TV Star: A Modern Hong Kong Xiaosheng -- 2 From TV Star to Film Actor: Star Performance in Hong Kong Cinema -- 3 Star Endorsement and Hong Kong Cinema: The Social Mobility of Chow Yun-fat -- 4 'Come Laugh with Me': The Construction of Cosmopolitan Residentship in Chow Yun-fat's Comedies -- Part II From an Expatriate Hong Kong Star to a Returning HKSAR Star: A Chinese Icon in Transnational Cinema from 1995 Onwards -- 5 The Birth of a Hollywood Star: An Asian Hero in America -- 6 middle-aged men Middle-aged Men in the Transnational Martial Arts Cinema: Ageing Stars and the Myth of Midlife Angst -- 7 Glocalising Chinese Stardom: Internet Publicity and the Negotiation of Transnational Stardom -- 8 Endowing the Fatherhood: The Power Game beyond Chinese Cinema -- Conclusion -- Appendix I General Filmography -- Appendix II Chow Yun-fat's Filmography -- Appendix III Chow Yun-fat's TV Works -- English-Chinese Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index

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Examines Chow Yun-fat's role in mediating Chinese identities across cultural industriesAs 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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)