| Description |
1 online resource (x, 181 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-172), filmography (pages 141-149) and index. |
| 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 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Chow, Yun-fat.
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Chow, Yun-fat. |
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Motion picture actors and actresses -- Social aspects.
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Motion picture actors and actresses. |
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Social aspects. |
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Motion picture industry -- China.
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Motion picture industry. |
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China. |
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Motion picture actors and actresses -- China -- Hong Kong.
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China -- Hong Kong. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Feng, Lin (Of University of Hull). Chow Yun-fat and territories of Hong Kong stardom. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2017] 9781474405898 (OCoLC)949149912 |
| ISBN |
9781474405904 (electronic book) |
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1474405908 (electronic book) |
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9781474405898 (hardback) |
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1474405894 (hardback) |
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9781474405911 (epub) |
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1474405916 (epub) |
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