Chow Yun-fat and Territories of Hong Kong Stardom
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Chow Yun-fat and Territories of Hong Kong Stardom

  1. 192 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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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

  1. Chow Yun-fat and Territories of Hong Kong Stardom
  2. Copyright
  3. Contents
  4. Acknowledgements
  5. Figures and Tables
  6. Note on the Text
  7. Introduction
  8. Part I From a Hong Kong Citizen to a Cosmopolitan Resident
  9. Chapter 1 The Birth of a TV Star
  10. Chapter 2 From TV Star to Film Actor
  11. Chapter 3 Star Endorsement and Hong Kong Cinema
  12. Chapter 4 ‘Come Laugh with Me’
  13. Part II From an Expatriate Hong Kong Star to a Returning HKSAR Star
  14. Chapter 5 The Birth of a Hollywood Star
  15. Chapter 6 Middle-aged Men in the Transnational Martial Arts Cinema
  16. Chapter 7 Glocalising Chinese Stardom
  17. Chapter 8 Endowing the Fatherhood
  18. Conclusion
  19. Appendix I General Filmography
  20. Appendix II Chow Yun-fat’s Filmography
  21. Appendix III Chow Yun-fat’s TV Works
  22. English-Chinese Glossary
  23. Bibliography
  24. Index