Many stars from China, Japan and Korea are the most popular and instantly recognizable in the world. East Asian Film Stars brings together some of the world's leading cinema scholars to offer their insights into the work of regional and transnational screen legends, contemporary superstars and mysterious cult personas.
List of Figures Notes on Contributors Introduction; Andy Willis and Leung Wing-Fai PART I: MARKETS AND RECEPTION 1. Body of Action, Face of Authenticity: Symbolic Stars in the Transnational Marketing and Reception of East Asian Cinema; Daniel Martin 2. Pop-orientalism and Asian Star Body: Rain and the Transnational Hollywood Action Movie; Nikki J.Y. Lee 3. National Idols? The Problem of 'Transnationalizing' Film Stardom in Japan's Idol Economy; Christopher Howard 4. Zhang Ziyi: The New Face of Chinese Femininity; Leung Wing-Fai PART II: REGIONAL AND GLOBAL STARS 5. Maggie Cheung, 'une Chinoise': Acting and Agency in the Realm of Transnational Stardom; Felicia Chan 6. Joan Chen: National, International and Transnational Stardom; Jie Zhang 7. Translocal Imagination of Hong Kong Connections: The Shifting of Chow Yun-fat's Star Image Since 1997; Lin Feng 8. Asano Tadanobu and Transnational Stardom: The Paradoxical Polysemy of Cool; Anne Ciecko 9. Too Late the Hero? The Delayed Stardom of Donnie Yen; Leon Hunt PART III: STARDOM AND STARS: FROM THE PAST 10. Grace Chang: Dreaming Hong Kong; David Desser 11. Kyo Machiko: East Meets West; Martin Carter 12. Stars as Production and Consumption: A Case Study of Brigitte Lin; Ming-Yeh T. Rawnsley 13. A Genealogy of the South Korean Action 'Star': Jang Dong-hwi, Hwang Jeong-ri, Jeong Du-hong; Mark Morris Index
