Transnational Stardom [electronic resource] : International Celebrity in Film and Popular Culture /
Meeuf, R.editor.
Raphael, R.editor.
Combining a diverse range of case studies with discussion between leading scholars in star studies and transnational cinema, this book analyzes stars as sites of cross-cultural contestation and the essays in this collection explore how the plasticity of stars helps disparate peoples manage the shifting ideologies of a transnational world.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: Discussing Transnational Stardom; 1 A Panel Discussion on Transnational Stardom; Part II: Hollywood Stars, Transnational Contexts; 2 John Wayne's Japan: International Production, Global Trade, and John Wayne's Diplomacy in The Barbarian and the Geisha; 3 Hanoi Jane Française: Transnational in Time; Part III: Gender and Mobile "European" Identities: '60s and '70s Francophone Stars; 4 Alain Delon, International Man of Mystery; 5 The Transnational Career of Geneviève Bujold
Part IV: Kinetic Bodies, Labor, and the Action Cinema6 Hong Kong's It/Ip Man: The Chinese Contexts of Donnie Yen's Transnational Stardom; 7 Tony Jaa: Hong Kong Action Cinema as Mode in Thai Action Stardom; Part V: Transnational Film Stars, Transnational Media; 8 (Almost) Everybody Loves Javier Bardem . . . "For He Is a Good Actor": Critical Reception in the Spanish and US Media; 9 From Heroine to "Brand Shilpa": Reality Television, Transnational Cultural Economics, and the Remaking of the Bollywood Star
10 Pink Rupees or Gay Icons? Accounting for the Camp Appropriation of Male Bollywood StarsPart VI: Popular Music Stars and Transnational Identities; 11 Shakira as the Idealized Transnational Citizen: A Case Study of Colombianidad in Transition; 12 Michael Jackson: Crisis, Resistance, and International Freakdom; Notes on Contributors; Index
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
Combining a diverse range of case studies with discussion between leading scholars in star studies and transnational cinema, this book analyzes stars as sites of cross-cultural contestation and the essays in this collection explore how the plasticity of stars helps disparate peoples manage the shifting ideologies of a transnational world.
Communication.
Motion pictures and television.
Culture—Study and teaching.
Ethnology.
Media Studies.
Screen Studies.
Regional and Cultural Studies.
Cultural Anthropology.