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Chow Yun-Fat and Territories of Hong Kong Stardom
Contributor(s): Feng, Lin (Author)
ISBN: 1474405894     ISBN-13: 9781474405898
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
OUR PRICE:   $114.00  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: February 2017
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BISAC Categories:
- Performing Arts | Film - History & Criticism
- History | Asia - General
- Performing Arts | Acting & Auditioning
Dewey: 791.430
LCCN: 2016590161
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6.3" W x 9.4" (0.95 lbs) 192 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Asian
 
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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.