Mark Gallagher

Tony Leung Chiu-Wai

Herausgeber: Shingler, Martin; Smith, Susan

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Tony Leung Chiu-Wai investigates the rich, prolific career of an acclaimed leading man of Hong Kong and Chinese film and television: the star of more than 70 films and dozens of television series, and the only Hong Kong actor to earn the Cannes Film Festival's best-actor award. This book addresses the dynamics of media stardom in Hong Kong, mainland China and the East Asian region, including the importance of television series for training and promotion; the phenomenon of regional, transmedia stardom across popular entertainment genres; and cultural and political considerations as performers move among different East Asian production environments. Attentive to Leung's position in both East Asian and global screen cultures, the book addresses relations among acting, global stardom and internationally circulating film genres and acclaimed directors. Overall, this unique study of Leung - who the New York Times calls "one of the world's last true matinee idols" - illuminates challenges and opportunities for Chinese screen actors in local, regional and global cultural and industrial contexts.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• 2018 edition
• Seitenzahl: 155
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 190mm x 134mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 200g
• ISBN-13: 9781844577811
• ISBN-10: 1844577813
• Artikelnr.: 46763713

Autorenporträt

Mark Gallagher is Associate Professor of Film and Television Studies at the University of Nottingham, UK. He is the co-editor, with Chi-Yun Shin, of East Asian Film Noir (I.B. Tauris, 2015) and author of Another Steven Soderbergh Experience: Authorship and Contemporary Hollywood (University of Texas Press, 2013) and Action Figures: Men, Action Films and Contemporary Adventure Narratives (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006). He has published extensively on US, East Asian and global film and television, particularly around screen masculinity, stardom and transnationalism.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements.
Introduction.
1: How to Act Sexy.
2. 1980s Hong Kong Television and Early Film Efforts.
3. Pan
Asian and Global Art
Cinema Stardom.
4: Tony Leung and Genre Stardom.
5: The Mainlanding of Tony Leung Chiu
Wai.
Conclusion.
Notes.
Bibliography.
Filmography.
Index.