Feng, Lin  (Of University of Hull), <br/><br/>
Chow Yun-fat and territories of Hong Kong stardom /Lin Feng. 

 - Edinburgh :  Edinburgh University Press,  (c)2017. 
 - 1 online resource (x, 181 pages) :  illustrations 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>The birth of a TV star: a modern Hong Kong Xiaosheng --  From TV star to film actor: star performance in Hong Kong cinema --  Star endorsement and Hong Kong cinema: the social mobility of Chow Yun-fat --  `Come laugh with me': the construction of cosmopolitan residentship in Chow Yun-fat's comedies --  The birth of a Hollywood star: an Asian hero in America --  Middle-aged men in the transnational martial arts cinema: ageing stars and the myth of midlife angst --  Glocalising Chinese stardom: internet publicity and the negotiation of transnational stardom --  Endowing the fatherhood: the power game beyond Chinese cinema. 
<br/><br/> 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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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781474405904 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Chow, Yun-fat.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Motion picture actors and actresses--Social aspects--China--Hong Kong.<br/>Motion picture industry--China.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PN2878  / .C469 2017