Starring Asian Femininities

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Subverting the Gaze, Reclaiming the Frame

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

Av Ian Dixon, Kirsty Fairclough, Lisa Gotto, Angelene Wong, Singapore) Dixon, Ian (Nanyang Technological University, UK) Fairclough, Dr. Kirsty (Associate Dean: Research and Innovation, Manchester Metropolitan University, Austria) Gotto, Lisa (University of Vienna, Singapore) Wong, Angelene (Nanyang Technological University, Jian Xu, Sean Redmond

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From 1950s Malay superstar Maria Menado to 2023 Golden Globe winner Michelle Yeoh, Starring Asian Feminities brings together a cross-disciplinary group of scholars to explore the variations and evolutions of Asian femaleness on-screen. Exploring a range of genres and forms including Chinese “chick flicks” (“Xiaoniu Dianying”), K-Cinema, Bollywood and Asian American stardom in Hollywood, the book examines the confluence of gender and sexual identities of a range of Asian female stars and analyses what media conditions underlie the production of images of Asian femininities. Through a range of case studies of these Asian female stars, Starring Asian Femininities confronts such questions as: how do Asian female stars transcend Western notions of fame, popularity and celebrity? What positions do they take on issues such as selfhood and identity? And how do they mediate conflicting ideological claims?

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Utgivningsdatum2026-08-20
Mått156 x 234 x 25 mm
Vikt454 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieAsian Celebrity and Fandom Studies
Antal sidor240
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781350434394

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Ian Dixon is Associate Professor at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Kirsty Fairclough is Reader in Screen Studies at the School of Digital Arts (SODA) at ManchesterMetropolitan University, UK. Lisa Gotto is Professor of Film Theory at the University of Vienna, Austria.Angelene Wong earned her PhD at the School of Art, Design and Media at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. She is the co-author of Fashion, Identity, Image (Bloomsbury 2022).

IntroductionSection One: CorrelationsChapter 1: Modes of Deceptions: The Plasticity of Kyo Machiko, Kimono's Dangerous/Naive Presence in Japanese Film, (Lucile Druet, Kansai Gaidai University, Hirakata, Osaka, Japan)Chapter 2: Heavy Shadowing: Sono Osato and the Japanese Spectre on the American Screen (Angelene Wong, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)Chapter 3: Tan Kheng Hua's Way: Acting Chinese/Asian/Singaporean (Nadya Wang)Chapter 4: Chinese Femininity in Huallywood: Branding Jing Tian With Transnational Appeal (Yixuan Feng, University of Liverpool, UK)Section 2: TransformationsChapter 5: ‘Fat Fat’: Lydia Shum as the Most Lovable Hong Kong Comedienne, (Yung-Hang Bruce Lai, King's College, London, UK)Chapter 6: Between the Male Gaze and Female Expression: Chinese comedienne Jia Ling and her film, 'Hi, Mom', (Xiao Yang, Monash University, Australia. Master’s from University College, London, UK)Chapter 7: Celebrity Contradictions and Borrowed Auras: Iza Calzado (Ian Dixon, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)Chapter 8: Soft Masculinity, a New Aesthetic and Gender Performance of Tom Identity in Thailand, (Charlin Nukul, University of Leicester, UK)Section 3: ReconfigurationsChapter 9: Michelle Yeoh and the Cultivation of an Oscar-Winning Screen Persona, (Andrew Hock Soon Ng, Monash University, Malaysia)Chapter 10: From Occidental Pornstar to Oriental Mistress: The Sexual Re-Orientation of Sunny Leone in Indian Cinema, (Dr. Sony Jalarajan Raj, MacEwan University, Canada, and Mr. Adith K Suresh, MacEwan University, Canada)Chapter 11: Zhang Ziyi as the ‘New Chinese Exotic’, (Deng Bingying, Nanyang Technological University,Singapore)Chapter 12: Sunmi as 'Heroine, Gashina, and Siren': How a Former Member of the K-Pop Group The Wonder Girls Developed 'Sunmi-Pop', (Grace Kao, Yale University, USA) Index