Reorienting Chinese Stars in Global Polyphonic Networks: Voice, Ethnicity, Power
In: Springer eBook Collection
Introduction: Laying out a Terrain of the Phone-based Star Discourse in Chinese Cinemas -- Part I: Anglophone Media Space -- Mediating Action and Speech: Michelle Yeoh's 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 Kwan's Sinophone Films -- Bi-ethnicity, Multi-dialecticality: Takeshi Kaneshiro's 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.