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Chow Yun-fat and Territories of Hong Kong Stardom
Lin Feng
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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 recognizes 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 ... Read more
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 recognizes 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781474405898
SKU
V9781474405898
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Ref
99-5
About Lin Feng
Lin Feng is Lecturer in Film Studies in the School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures, the University of Hull.
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