Celebrity Bromance and Comradery Capital in Asia

Celia Lam is Associate Professor in Media and Cultural Studies, at the School of International Communications, University of Nottingham Ningbo, China. Her work has been published in journals such as Continuum, Convergence, and Northern Lights, and Wiley’s International Encyclopedia of Gender, Media, and Communication. She is an executive board member of the Fame and Persona Research Consortium, and editorial board member of Celebrity Studies Journal and Participations.Jackie Raphael-Luu is a Lecturer in Communications and Media (Advertising) at the London College of Communication, University of Arts London, UK. Her publications include Celebrity Bromance: Constructing, Interpreting and Utilising Personas and Disassembling the Celebrity Figure: Credibility and the Incredible. She is an executive board member and regional chair of the Fame and Persona Research Consortium.

• 1. IntroductionPart 1: Bromance Capital2. Manufacturing Intimacy: The on and off-screen performance of coupledom by Asian BL celebrities (Joyleen Christensen, University of Newcastle, Australia)3. Bromancing of the Khans: From Hindi cinema’s brothers in arms to Bollywood bromance!(Vikrant Kishore, University of Nottingham Ningbo, China)4. Leaving Johnny’s: How Nishikido-Akanishi Bromance Transformed Their Post-Idol Success(Nur Aliah Binti Mansor, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman, Malaysia)5. Commodifying Queer Representation and Fan Service in Thai BL Lakhon (Dania Shaikh, Independent Researcher, India)6. Fan-Snubbing, Bromances and Porus Masculinities: (re) scripting comradery capital in a Thai context(Mark Vicars, Victoria University, Australia, Nuntiya Doungphummes, Mahidol University, Thailand andNarongdej Phanthaphoommee, Mahidol University, Thailand)7. Deconstructing Bromances: fan responses to the ending of celebrity bromances in Chinese Boy's Love adapted dramas (Yizhe Cui and Celia Lam)Part 2: Comradery Capital8. Following a Universal Star: Cine-politics, Comradery Capital and Kamal Haasan in Indian Cinema (Raj Sony Jalarajan and Adith K. Suresh, MacEwan University, Edmonton, Canada)9. Comradery Capital: Commodified celebrity interactions in Crazy Rich Asians cast (Celia Lam and Jackie Raphael)10. Young NK Women Vloggers on YouTube and Their Self-Representational Techniques, (Haelin Jun and Aristea Fotopoulou, University of Brighton, UK)11. Friendship? No, It Is Business!: How trainee capital is transformed into the commodification of celebrity in the K-pop industry (Hyejin Jo, Simon Fraser University, Canada)12. Jury Casting in SING! China: Validity of Group Celebrity Persona in the study of Comradery Capital across China (Sevda Kaya Kitinur, Izmir University of Economics, Turkey)13. Transregional Circulation of HK Celebrities in Mainland China, (Fang Qi, University of Hainan, China)Index