East Asian film stars
By: edited by Leung Wing-Fai, School of Asian Studies, University College Cork, Ireland and Andy Willis, School of Media, Music and Performance, University of Salford, UK
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9781137029188
Subjects: Motion picture actors and actresses; Motion pictures; History
Description: East Asian Film Stars brings together some of the world's leading cinema scholars to offer their insights into the work of regional and transnational screen legends, contemporary superstars and mysterious cult personas. This collection of original essays explores some of the most globally recognizable and popular, yet academically underexplored, film stars from Japan, Korea and Chinese language cinemas, placing them into their economic, cultural and social contexts, and discussing them in relation to notions of gender, ethnicity and identity. It offers an extension of star studies beyond its traditional geographical and cultural focus on Hollywood and European performers, exploring stardom across national and regional borders, and taking into account the increasingly important phenomenon of international co-productions and distribution that are aimed at diverse markets. East Asian Film Stars traverses disciplinary boundaries and considers film stardom as part of ever-changing cultural practices and discourses -- from publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : star power from Hollywood to East Asia  -- Andy Willis and Leung Wing-Fai; title: Body of action, face of authenticity : symbolic stars in the transnational marketing and reception of East Asian cinema  -- Daniel Martin; title: Pop-orientalism and the Asian star body : rain and the transnational Hollywood action movie  -- Nikki J.Y. Lee; title: National idols? : the problem of 'transnationalizing' film stardom in Japan's idol economy  -- Christopher Howard; title: Zhang Ziyi : the new face of Chinese femininity  -- Leung Wing-Fai; title: Maggie Cheung, 'une Chinoise' : acting and agency in the realm of transnational stardom  -- Felicia Chan; title: Joan Chen : national, international and transnational stardom  -- Jie Zhang; title: Translogical imagination of Hong Kong connections : the shifting of Chow Yun-fat's star image since 1997  -- Lin Feng; title: Asano Tadanobu and transnational stardom : the paradoxical polysemy of cool  -- Anne Ciecko; title: Too late the hero? : the delayed stardom of Donnie Yen  -- Leon Hunt; title: Grace Chang : dreaming Hong Kong  -- David Desser; title: Kyo Machiko : east meets west  -- Martin Carter; title: Stars as production and consumption : a case study of Brigitte Lin  -- Ming-Yeh T. Rawnsley; title: A genealogy of the South Korean action 'star' : Jan Dong-hwi, Hwang Jeong-ri, Jeong Du-hong -- Mark Morris.