East Asian Film Stars

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Introduction: Star Power from Hollywood to East Asia

   1. Introduction: Star Power from Hollywood to East Asia

      • Andy Willis, Leung Wing-Fai

      Pages 1-16

3. Markets and Reception

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-17

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   2. Body of Action, Face of Authenticity: Symbolic Stars in the Transnational Marketing and Reception of East Asian Cinema

      • Daniel Martin

      Pages 19-34

   3. Pop-orientalism and the Asian Star Body: Rain and the Transnational Hollywood Action Movie

      • Nikki J. Y. Lee

      Pages 35-48

   4. National Idols? The Problem of ‘Transnationalizing’ Film Stardom in Japan’s Idol Economy

      • Christopher Howard

      Pages 49-64

   5. Zhang Ziyi: The New Face of Chinese Femininity

      • Leung Wing-Fai

      Pages 65-80

4. Regional and Global Stars

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 81-81

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   2. Maggie Cheung, ‘une Chinoise’: Acting and Agency in the Realm of Transnational Stardom

      • Felicia Chan

      Pages 83-95

   3. Joan Chen: National, International and Transnational Stardom

      • Jie Zhang

      Pages 96-112

   4. Translocal Imagination of Hong Kong Connections: The Shifting of Chow Yun-fat’s Star Image Since 1997

      • Lin Feng

      Pages 113-127

   5. Asano Tadanobu and Transnational Stardom: The Paradoxical Polysemy of Cool

      • Anne Ciecko

      Pages 128-142

   6. Too Late the Hero? The Delayed Stardom of Donnie Yen

      • Leon Hunt

      Pages 143-155

5. Stardom and Stars: From the Past

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 157-157

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   2. Grace Chang: Dreaming Hong Kong

      • David Desser

      Pages 159-174

   3. Kyo Machiko: East Meets West

      • Martin Carter

      Pages 175-189

   4. Stars as Production and Consumption: A Case Study of Brigitte Lin

      • Ming-Yeh T. Rawnsley

      Pages 190-204

   5. A Genealogy of the South Korean Action ‘Star’: Jang Dong-hwi, Hwang Jeong-ri, Jeong Du-hong

      • Mark Morris

      Pages 205-221

6. Back Matter

   Pages 222-228

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Many stars from China, Japan and Korea are the most popular and instantly recognizable in the world. 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.

• cinema
• economy
• film
• Hollywood

• School of Asian Studies, University College Cork, Ireland

  Leung Wing-Fai

• School of Media, Music and Performance, University of Salford, UK

  Andy Willis

Martin Carter, Sheffield Hallam University, UK Felicia Chan, University of Manchester, UK Anne Ciecko, international cinema educator and academic researcher David Desser, University of Illinois, USA Lin Feng, University of Hull, UK Christopher Howard, Chongqing University, PRC Nikki J.Y. Lee, Nottingham Trent University, UK Leung Wing-Fai, University College Cork, Ireland Daniel Martin, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), South Korea Mark Morris, University of Cambridge, UK Dr Ming-Yeh T. Rawnsley, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK Andy Willis, University of Salford, UK Jie Zhang, Trinity University, USA

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