Chow Yun-fat and Territories of Hong Kong Stardom

Chow Yun-fat and Territories of Hong Kong Stardom

by Lin Feng
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 28/10/2019

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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.

ISBN:
9781474405911
9781474405911
Category:
Film theory & criticism
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
28-10-2019
Language:
English
Publisher:
Edinburgh University Press

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