Download or read book Chow Yun fat and Territories of Hong Kong Stardom written by Lin Feng and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-03 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Chinese Stardom in Participatory Cyberculture written by Dorothy Wai Sim Lau and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-14 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Machine generated contents note:1.Blogging Donnie Yen: remaking the martial arts body as a cyber-intertext --2.`Flickering' Jackie Chan: the actor-ambassadorial persona on photo-sharing sites --3.`Friending' Jet Li on Facebook: the celebrity-philanthropist persona in online social networks --4.YouTubing Zhang Ziyi: Chinese female stardom in fan videos on video-sharing sites --5.Discussing Takeshi Kaneshiro: the pan-Asian star image on fan forums.
Download or read book Reorienting Chinese Stars in Global Polyphonic Networks written by Dorothy Wai Sim Lau and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-03-08 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph offers a cutting edge perspective on the study of Chinese film stars by advancing a “linguaphonic” model, moving away from a conceptualization of transnational Chinese stardom reliant on the centrality of either action or body. It encompasses a selection of individual personalities from the most iconic Bruce Lee, Michelle Yeoh, and Maggie Cheung to the not-yet-full-fledged Takeshi Kaneshiro, Jay Chou, and Tang Wei to the newest Fan Binging, Liu Yifei, Wen Ming-Na, and Sammi Cheng who are exemplary to the star-making practices in the designated sites of articulations. This volume notably pivots on specific phonic modalities – spoken forms of tongues, manners of enunciation, styles of vocalization -- as means to mine ethnic and ideological underpinnings of Chinese stardom. By indicating a methodological shift from the visual-based to aural-based vectors, it asserts the phonic as a legitimate bearing that can generate novel vigor in the reimagination of Chineseness. By exhausting the critical affordability of the phonic, this book unravels the polemics of visuality and aurality, body and voice, as well as onscreen personae and offscreen existence, remapping the contours of the ethnic fame-making in the global mediascape.
Download or read book Multimedia Stardom in Hong Kong written by Leung Wing-Fai and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-11-27 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book details original research into the practices and discourse of multimedia stardom alongside changing social and cultural landscapes in Hong Kong since 1980. It examines the cultural and sociological significance of stardom in the region, and the conditions which gave rise to such famous stars as Jackie Chan. This book elaborates the distinction between multimedia stardom and celebrity, asserting that in Hong Kong stardom has been central in the production and consumption of local media, while demonstrating the importance of multimedia stardom as part of the ‘cultural Chinese’ mediascape and transnational popular culture from both historical and contemporary contexts.
Download or read book Once Upon a Time in China written by Jeff Yang and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2003 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Jackie Chan to Ang Lee, from "Supercop" to "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon," Chinese cinema has truly arrived in the U.S. Filled with photos and tidbits, this is the definitive book for anyone who has already fallen in love with Chinese cinema--and all those who are looking to learn more about it.
Download or read book Stellar Encounters written by Tytti Soila and published by JOHN LIBBEY PUBLISHING. This book was released on 2009 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A diverse approach to European star studies from top scholars
Download or read book Ch u Nhu n Ph t written by Lin Feng Ph. D. and published by First News. This book was released on with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Châu Nhuận Phát - Đại hiệp Hồng Kông” là cuốn sách đầy đủ và chi tiết nhất về ngôi sao điện ảnh Hồng Kông Châu Nhuận Phát từng được phát hành trên thế giới. Với mong muốn mang đến một bức tranh toàn diện, sâu sắc về cuộc đời diễn viên Châu Nhuận Phát, First News - Trí Việt không chỉ dịch từ một khảo cứu điện ảnh Hồng Kông dựa trên sự nghiệp Châu Nhuận Phát của Tiến sĩ Lin Feng - “Chow Yun-Fat and Territories of Hong Kong Stardom”, mà còn tổng hợp, phân tích thêm rất nhiều tư liệu quý về diễn viên huyền thoại này để ra mắt độc giả Việt Nam. Châu Nhuận Phát không chỉ là một người được công chúng đặc biệt yêu mến mà còn là biểu tượng lớn của nền điện ảnh mang đậm bản sắc Hồng Kông. Điều này được khẳng định không chỉ bởi tài năng và sự cống hiến hơn 40 năm trên màn ảnh, mà còn bởi đức độ, nhân cách, khí chất, nghĩa khí và sự khiêm nhường hiếm có của “người hùng” Châu Nhuận Phát. Để vinh danh những cống hiến của Châu Nhuận Phát, Đại học Hồng Kông đã trao bằng Tiến sĩ Danh dự cho ông vào năm 2001. Năm 2003, một nội dung mới về sự nghiệp Châu Nhuận Phát được đưa vào trong sách giáo khoa tại Hồng Kông. Ông là nghệ sĩ Hồng Kông duy nhất có được vinh dự này. Ngành Giáo dục Hồng Kông cho rằng chính sự “chăm chỉ nỗ lực”, “khiêm tốn”, “hiếu thảo”, “tinh thần học hỏi suốt đời”, “khả năng tự hoàn thiện” và “tính chính trực” khiến Châu Nhuận Phát trở thành một tấm gương cho lớp trẻ, sinh viên, học sinh noi theo. Không chỉ ghi dấu ấn ở tất cả mọi bước ngoặt quan trọng của điện ảnh Hồng Kông, Châu Nhuận Phát còn góp phần thúc đẩy cuộc cách mạng vượt giai cấp, truyền cảm hứng cho người Hồng Kông ở mọi tầng lớp vươn lên trong xã hội. Khi Châu Nhuận Phát tuyên bố hiến tặng toàn bộ tài sản hơn 700 triệu USD của mình cho người nghèo, có thể nói rằng Châu Nhuận Phát chính là một trong những nhân vật tiêu biểu góp phần tạo dựng nên “Niềm tự hào Hồng Kông”. “Châu Nhuận Phát - Đại hiệp Hồng Kông” mang đến cho độc giả bức tranh đa dạng của văn hóa, xã hội, điện ảnh Hồng Kông từ những năm 1950 cho đến nay. Thông qua chặng đường điện ảnh và sự tương tác của Châu Nhuận Phát đến văn hóa - xã hội Hồng Kông và khu vực, chúng ta hiểu được vì sao Hồng Kông lại vươn mình trở thành một con rồng châu Á với những phát triển vượt trội về kinh tế, giáo dục; và vì sao người Hồng Kông, giới trẻ Hồng Kông lại là những công dân ưu tú và có ý thức về tương lai Hồng Kông. Một Hương Cảng Hồng Kông đầy sống động và thăng trầm hiện lên trong hành trình của Châu Nhuận Phát với đủ hào khí, nghĩa tình, bi kịch, nụ cười và nước mắt. Sức hấp dẫn của thiên đường mua sắm Hồng Kông, sức hấp dẫn của những ngôi sao điện ảnh lừng lẫy một thời như Châu Nhuận Phát, Mai Diễm Phương, Trương Quốc Vinh, Lưu Đức Hoa… vẫn còn trong ký ức của chúng ta rất lâu. Do đó, “Châu Nhuận Phát - Đại hiệp Hồng Kông” không chỉ là cuốn sách dành cho những người hâm mộ Châu Nhuận Phát và điện ảnh Hồng Kông, cho những ai yêu Hồng Kông mà còn cho cả những ai đang đi tìm một hình mẫu nhân cách lý tưởng để học hỏi. Xét ở phạm vi toàn cầu, Châu Nhuận Phát của Hồng Kông chắc chắn nằm trong số những nhân vật “vô tiền khoáng hậu” đã để lại dấu ấn khó quên trong văn hóa đại chúng. Nhận định về cuốn sách, Giáo sư Julian Stringer của Đại học Nottingham đã nói: “Với nhiều năm nghiên cứu hình tượng - ngôi sao xuyên quốc gia Châu Nhuận Phát, tác giả Lin Feng đã cho chúng ta thấu hiểu hành trình vô tiền khoáng hậu của một nghệ sĩ lớn chưa từng có tiền lệ tại Hồng Kông, đồng thời khám phá những chuyển mình lớn lao của Hồng Kông để trở thành một biểu tượng tỏa sáng của châu Á. Hơn bất kỳ một ai, Châu Nhuận Phát chính là người đã làm thay đổi ý nghĩa văn hóa ngôi sao không chỉ ở Hồng Kông”.
Download or read book Chinese Face Off written by Kwai-Cheung Lo and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on current concepts of globalisation as well as the theories of Jacques Lacan & Slavoj Zizek, 'Chinese Face/Off' explores the way in which fantasy operates in relation to ethnic & national identity.
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Download or read book Making Hong Kong written by Pui-yin Ho and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2018-09-28 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This insightful book provides a comprehensive survey of urban development in Hong Kong since 1841. Pui-yin Ho explores the ways in which the social, economic and political environments of different eras have influenced the city's development. From colonial governance, wartime experiences, high density development and the return to Chinese sovereignty in 1997 through to contemporary challenges, this book explores forward-looking ideas that urban planning can offer to lead the city in the future. Evaluating the relationship between town planning and social change, this book looks at how a local Hong Kong identity emerged in the face of conflict and compromise between Chinese and European cultures. In doing so, it brings a fresh perspective to urban research, providing historical context and direction for the future development of the city. Hong Kong's urban development experience offers not only a model for other Chinese cities but also a better understanding of Asian cities more broadly.Urban studies scholars will find this an exemplary case study of a developing urban landscape. Town planners and architects will also benefit from reading this comprehensive book as it shows how Hong Kong can be taken to the next stage of urban development and modernisation.
Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Hong Kong Cinema written by Lisa Odham Stokes and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-01-15 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hong Kong cinema began attracting international attention in the 1980s. By the early 1990s, Hong Kong had become "Hollywood East" as its film industry rose to first in the world in per capita production, was ranked second to the United States in the number of films it exported, and stood third in the world in the number of films produced per year behind the United States and India. This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Hong Kong Cinema contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 600 cross-referenced entries on directors, producers, writers, actors, films, film companies, genres, and terminology. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Hong Kong cinema.
Download or read book China on Screen written by Chris Berry and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In China on Screen, Chris Berry and Mary Farquhar, leaders in the field of Chinese film studies, explore more than one hundred years of Chinese cinema and nation. Providing new perspectives on key movements, themes, and filmmakers, Berry and Farquhar analyze the films of a variety of directors and actors, including Chen Kaige, Zhang Yimou, Hou Hsiao Hsien, Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, Maggie Cheung, Gong Li, Wong Kar-wai, and Ang Lee. They argue for the abandonment of "national cinema" as an analytic tool and propose "cinema and the national" as a more productive framework. With this approach, they show how movies from China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the Chinese diaspora construct and contest different ideas of Chinese nation--as empire, republic, or ethnicity, and complicated by gender, class, style, transnationalism, and more. Among the issues and themes covered are the tension between operatic and realist modes, male and female star images, transnational production and circulation of Chinese films, the image of the good foreigner--all related to different ways of imagining nation. Comprehensive and provocative, China on Screen is a crucial work of film analysis.
Download or read book Portraits of Trees of Hong Kong and Southern China written by Richard M. K. Saunders and published by Earnshaw Books Limited. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hong Kong possesses an impressively diverse tree flora with 390 native species. This book celebrates the incredible diversity, beauty and biology of the territory's tree species, highlighting over 100 important species that are individually illustrated in exquisitely detailed watercolour paintings by Sally Grace Bunker, an acclaimed botanical artist. The illustrations are accompanied by text that teases out a diversity of associated narratives for each species, ranging from the history of global exploration and scientific discoveries, the ecology and biology of each species, and the various ways in which they have been utilised and their cultural associations.
Download or read book War and Popular Culture written by Chang-tai Hung and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-12-22 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first comprehensive study of popular culture in twentieth-century China, and of its political impact during the Sino-Japanese War of 1937-1945 (known in China as "The War of Resistance against Japan"). Chang-tai Hung shows in compelling detail how Chinese resisters used a variety of popular cultural forms—especially dramas, cartoons, and newspapers—to reach out to the rural audience and galvanize support for the war cause. While the Nationalists used popular culture as a patriotic tool, the Communists refashioned it into a socialist propaganda instrument, creating lively symbols of peasant heroes and joyful images of village life under their rule. In the end, Hung argues, the Communists' use of popular culture contributed to their victory in revolution.
Download or read book Film Cultures written by Janet Harbord and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2002-09-20 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Film Cultures is thought-provoking and challenging. By opening film theory up to the many simultaneous networks of relation (that is, the cultures) of film, it asks both viewer and student to take film more seriously." - Communication Research Trends "Film Cultures weaves together insights from cultural theory and film studies to provide a complex and absorbing theoretical account of contemporary film culture. Harbord writes with authority, imagination and wit and her delicate deployment of modernist and postmodernist cultural accounts makes rewarding reading." - Christine Geraghty, Professor of Film and Television, University of Glasgow Film Cultures argues that our tastes for film connect us to social, spatial and temporal networks of exchange and meaning. Whether we view film in the multiplex, arthouse or the gallery, as cinema premiere, video hire or from a cable channel, whether we approach film as a singular object or a hypertext linked to ancillary products, our relationship to film is inhabiting a culture. Shifting the focus of film analysis from the text to paths of circulation, Film Cultures questions how film connects us to social status, and national and global affiliations.
Download or read book East Asian Pop Culture written by Beng Huat Chua and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2008-02-01 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributors analyse the subject of Asian pop culture arranged under three headings: 'Television Industry in East Asia', 'Transnational-Crosscultural Receptions of TV Dramas' and 'Nationalistic reactions'.
Download or read book Speaking in Subtitles written by Tessa Dwyer and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2017-05-18 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 6000 different languages are used in the world today, but the conventions of 'media speak' are far from universal and the complexities of translation are rarely acknowledged by the industry, audiences or scholars. Redressing this neglect, Speaking in Subtitles argues that the specific contingencies of translation are vital to screen media's global storytelling. Looking at a range of examples, from silent era intertitling to contemporary crowdsourced subtitling, and from avant-garde dubbing to the increasing practice of 'fansubbing', Tessa Dwyer proposes that screen media itself is a fundamentally 'translational' field.
