Chinese Stardom in Participatory Cyberculture /

As Chinese performers have become more visible on global screens, their professional images - once the preserve of studios and agents - have been increasingly relayed and reworked by film fans. Web technology has made searching, poaching, editing, posting and sharing texts significantly easier, and...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lau, Dorothy Wai Sim (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2018.
Series:International Film Stars Ser.
Subjects:
Online Access:CONNECT
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.