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Chow Yun-fat and territories of Hong Kong stardom /
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 constructi...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
[2017]
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 181 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-172), filmography (pages 141-149) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781474405904 1474405908 |