
- 192 pages
- English
- PDF
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Chow Yun-fat and Territories of Hong Kong Stardom
About this book
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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Table of contents
- Chow Yun-fat and Territories of Hong Kong Stardom
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Figures and Tables
- Note on the Text
- Introduction
- Part I From a Hong Kong Citizen to a Cosmopolitan Resident
- Chapter 1 The Birth of a TV Star
- Chapter 2 From TV Star to Film Actor
- Chapter 3 Star Endorsement and Hong Kong Cinema
- Chapter 4 ‘Come Laugh with Me’
- Part II From an Expatriate Hong Kong Star to a Returning HKSAR Star
- Chapter 5 The Birth of a Hollywood Star
- Chapter 6 Middle-aged Men in the Transnational Martial Arts Cinema
- Chapter 7 Glocalising Chinese Stardom
- Chapter 8 Endowing the Fatherhood
- 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