Dorothy Wai Sim Lau
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- September 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781474430333
- eISBN:
- 9781474460040
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474430333.003.0001
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
This introductory chapter delineates the picture of stardom in participatory cyberspace, epitomised by Web 2.0. It then concentrates on Chinese icons who have established their status in cinema and ...
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This introductory chapter delineates the picture of stardom in participatory cyberspace, epitomised by Web 2.0. It then concentrates on Chinese icons who have established their status in cinema and have transited to the Web, exploring the changing mode of star-making. It hypothesises the cine-cyber imaginary that conceptually informs the Chineseness in the global cyber setting. It also demonstrates how user participation is adopted as new methodology of studying Chinese stardom.Less
This introductory chapter delineates the picture of stardom in participatory cyberspace, epitomised by Web 2.0. It then concentrates on Chinese icons who have established their status in cinema and have transited to the Web, exploring the changing mode of star-making. It hypothesises the cine-cyber imaginary that conceptually informs the Chineseness in the global cyber setting. It also demonstrates how user participation is adopted as new methodology of studying Chinese stardom.
Dorothy Wai Sim Lau
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- September 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781474430333
- eISBN:
- 9781474460040
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474430333.001.0001
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
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 ...
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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, positing, and sharing texts significantly easier. Moreover, by using a variety of seamless and innovative methods, a new mode of personality construction has been developed. With case studies of high-profile stars like Jackie Chan, Jet Li, Donnie Yen, and Michelle Yeoh, this ground-breading book examines transnational Chinese stardom as a Web-based phenomenon, and as an outcome of the participatory practices of cyber fans. By grounding the theory and praxis of Chinese stardom in a cyber-context, this book proffers a critical intervention of Chineseness and redress some inadequacies of the current scholarship on the subject by advancing the exploration of the dynamics borne out of technological apparatuses, cultural discourses, and network culture.Less
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, positing, and sharing texts significantly easier. Moreover, by using a variety of seamless and innovative methods, a new mode of personality construction has been developed. With case studies of high-profile stars like Jackie Chan, Jet Li, Donnie Yen, and Michelle Yeoh, this ground-breading book examines transnational Chinese stardom as a Web-based phenomenon, and as an outcome of the participatory practices of cyber fans. By grounding the theory and praxis of Chinese stardom in a cyber-context, this book proffers a critical intervention of Chineseness and redress some inadequacies of the current scholarship on the subject by advancing the exploration of the dynamics borne out of technological apparatuses, cultural discourses, and network culture.
