Reorienting Chinese stars in global polyphonic networks : voice, ethnicity, power / Dorothy Wai Sim Lau.
Lau, Dorothy Wai Sim, author.
2021
PN1993.5.C4 L38 2021
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Title Reorienting Chinese stars in global polyphonic networks : voice, ethnicity, power / Dorothy Wai Sim Lau.
Author Lau, Dorothy Wai Sim, author.
ISBN 9811603138 (electronic book)
9789811603136 (electronic bk.)
981160312X
9789811603129
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-0313-6
Published Singapore : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
Language English
Description 1 online resource
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-981-16-0313-6 doi
Call Number PN1993.5.C4 L38 2021
Dewey Decimal Classification 791.430951
Summary This monograph offers a cutting edge perspective on the study of Chinese film stars by advancing a "linguaphonic" model, moving away from a conceptualization of transnational Chinese stardom reliant on the centrality of either action or body. It encompasses a selection of individual personalities from the most iconic Bruce Lee, Michelle Yeoh, and Maggie Cheung to the not-yet-full-fledged Takeshi Kaneshiro, Jay Chou, and Tang Wei to the newest Fan Binging, Liu Yifei, Wen Ming-Na, and Sammi Cheng who are exemplary to the star-making practices in the designated sites of articulations. This volume notably pivots on specific phonic modalities spoken forms of tongues, manners of enunciation, styles of vocalization -- as means to mine ethnic and ideological underpinnings of Chinese stardom. By indicating a methodological shift from the visual-based to aural-based vectors, it asserts the phonic as a legitimate bearing that can generate novel vigor in the reimagination of Chineseness. By exhausting the critical affordability of the phonic, this book unravels the polemics of visuality and aurality, body and voice, as well as onscreen personae and offscreen existence, remapping the contours of the ethnic fame-making in the global mediascape
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Introduction: Laying out a Terrain of the Phone-based Star Discourse in Chinese Cinemas
Part I: Anglophone Media Space
Mediating Action and Speech: Michelle Yeohs Inter-phonic Star Appeal in Pan-Pacific Connections
The Exotic Sound of New China: Fan Bingbing and Liu Yifei in Hollywood Star Vehicles
From King of Mandopop to the New Kato: Vocal Eccentricities, Coolness, and the Crossover Image of Jay Chou
Part II: Sinophone Cinematic Space
Tang Wei: Lingual Versatility, On-/Off-screen Existence, and the Chinese-Korean Popular Imagination
Modern Women, Old Shanghai: Maggie Cheung, Sammi Cheng, and Female Vocality in Two Stanley Kwans Sinophone Films
Bi-ethnicity, Multi-dialecticality: Takeshi Kaneshiros Lingua-Crossing Public Persona
Part III: Participatory Web Space
Mute Fighters: Dialectics of Corporeal Presence and Vocal Absence in Digital Fan Videos Featuring Bruce Lee and Donnie Yen
When Geisha Meets Mulan: User-generated Revoicing, (Dis)embodiment and Cyber Star Discourse of Zhang Ziyi
Conclusion: Reconsidering Chinese Film Stars
Toward a Polyphonic Presence.

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