Jet Li : : Chinese Masculinity and Transnational Film Stardom / / Sabrina Qiong Yu.
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 surroun...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2012 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (224 p.) :; 10 B/W illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Jet Li and transnational kung fu stardom
- Part I Jet Li as Chinese wuxia hero
- 1 Jet Li and the new wuxia cinema in the 1990s
- 2 Kung fu master: martial arts and acting in Once Upon a Time in China (1991)
- 3 Gay lover? Gender trouble and male identifi cation in Swordsman II (1992)
- 4 Mother’s boy: adolescent hero and male masquerade in Fong Sai-yuk (1993)
- Part II Jet Li as transnational kung fu star
- 5 Villain/killer/child: crossover images and Orientalist imagination
- 6 Asexual Romeo? Male sexuality and cultural perspectives
- 7 National hero/spectacular body: national and transnational identities
- 8 Borderless icon: star construction and Internet fandom
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index