Jet Li
Chinese Masculinity and Transnational Film Stardom
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Edinburgh University Press
- Date of Publication 4 April 2012
- Number of Volumes Print PDF
- ISBN 9780748645473
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages224 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Weight 494 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 10 black and white illustrations Illustrations, black & white 0
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Short description:
This is the first study of Chinese stars and their transnational stardom, examining the career of Jet Li, probably the best martial arts actor alive.
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This is the first study of Chinese stars and their transnational stardom, examining the transnational Chinese actor Jet Li, probably the best martial arts actor alive.Jet Li's career has crossed numerous cultural and geographic boundaries, from mainland China to Hong Kong, from Hollywood to France. In Jet Li: Chinese Masculinity and Transnational Film Stardom, Sabrina Qiong Yu uses Li as an example to address some intriguing but under-examined issues surrounding transnational stardom in general and transnational kung fu stardom in particular.Presenting case studies of audiences' responses to Jet Li films and his star image, this book explores the way in which Li has evolved from a Chinese wuxia hero to a transnational kung fu star in relation to the discourses of genre, gender, sexuality, ethnicity and national identity. By rejecting a text-centred approach which prevails in star studies and instead emphasising the role of audiences in constructing star image, this book challenges some established perspectives in the study of Chinese male screen images and martial arts/action cinema.
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List of figures ; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Jet Li and Transnational Kung Fu Stardom; Part One - Jet Li as Chinese Wuxia Hero; Chapter 1 Jet Li and the New Wuxia Cinema in the 1990s ; Chapter 2 Kung Fu Master: Martial Arts and Acting in Once Upon a Time in China (1991) ; Chapter 3 Gay lover? Gender Trouble and Male Identification in Swordsman 2 (1992) ; Chapter 4 Mother’s Boy: Adolescent Hero and Male Masquerade in Fong Sai-yuk (1993; Part Two - Jet Li as Transnational Kung Fu Star; Chapter 5 Villain/Killer/Child: Crossover Images and Orientalist Imagination; Chapter 6 Asexual Romeo? Male Sexuality and Cultural Perspective; Chapter 7 National Hero/Spectacular Body: National and Transnational Identities; Chapter 8 Borderless Icon: Star Construction and Internet Fandom; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index
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