Tony Leung Chiu-Wai

Mark Gallagher is Associate Professor of Film and Television Studies at the University of Nottingham, UK. He is the co-editor, with Chi-Yun Shin, of East Asian Film Noir (I.B. Tauris, 2015) and author of Another Steven Soderbergh Experience: Authorship and Contemporary Hollywood (University of Texas Press, 2013) and Action Figures: Men, Action Films and Contemporary Adventure Narratives (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006). He has published extensively on US, East Asian and global film and television, particularly around screen masculinity, stardom and transnationalism.

• Acknowledgements.- Introduction.- 1: How to Act Sexy.- 2. 1980s Hong Kong Television and Early Film Efforts.- 3. Pan-Asian and Global Art-Cinema Stardom.- 4: Tony Leung and Genre Stardom.- 5: The Mainlanding of Tony Leung Chiu-Wai.- Conclusion.- Notes.- Bibliography.- Filmography.- Index.

Suave, debonair, intense, and sexy with a wry sense of humor, Tony Leung defines Hong Kong cosmopolitan “cool” on world screens. Mark Gallagher does a superb job of bringing neglected aspects of Leung’s transnational stardom into sharp focus, and this book will be of enormous interest to anyone working on East Asian film, Pacific Rim celebrity culture, or Chinese masculinity in global media culture.