Chinese Stardom in Participatory Cyberculture

ISBN-13: 9781474430333 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 224 str.

Dorothy Wai Sim Lau

Opis

With case studies of popular stars like Linda Lin Dai and Edison Chen, and spectacular genres like the Shaolin Temple cycle of martial arts films, the book explores what it meant to be both cosmopolitan and Chinese in the second half of the 20th century.

Spis treści

Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Figures; Note on the Text; Introduction: A Phenomenon After Cinema – The Chinese Stardom Goes ‘Cyber’; Chapter 1: Blogging Donnie Yen: Remaking the Martial Arts Body as a Cyber-Intertext; Chapter 2: ‘Flickering’ Jackie Chan: The Actor-Ambassadorial Persona on Photo-sharing Sites; Chapter 3: ‘Friending’ Jet Li on Facebook: The Celebrity-Philanthropist Persona in Online Social Networks; Chapter 4: YouTubing Zhang Ziyi: Chinese Female Stardom in Fan Videos on Video-sharing Sites; Chapter 5: Discussing Takeshi Kaneshiro: The Pan-Asian Star Image on Fan Forums; Conclusion: Reimagining Chineseness in the Global Cyber Culture; Filmography; Bibliography; Index