Translocal imagination of Hong Kong connections: the shifting of Chow Yun-Fat's star image since 1997

Feng, Lin

Abstract

Anyone who is interested in Hong Kong cinema must be familiar with one name: Chow Yun-fat (b. 1955). He rose to film stardom in the 1980s when Hong Kong cinema started to attract global attention beyond East Asia. During his early screen career, Chow established a star image as an urban citizen of modern Hong Kong through films such as A Better Tomorrow/Yingxiong bense (John Woo, 1986), City on Fire/Longhu fengyun (Ringo Lam, 1987), All About Ah-Long/A Lang de gushi (Johnnie To, 1989), God of Gamblers/Du shen (Wong Jing, 1989), and Hard Boiled/Lashou shentan (John Woo, 1992).

Citation

Feng, L. (2014). Translocal imagination of Hong Kong connections: the shifting of Chow Yun-Fat's star image since 1997. In East Asian Film Stars (113-127). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137029195_8

• Publication Date: Jan 1, 2014
• Deposit Date: May 25, 2016
• Publicly Available Date: May 25, 2016
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Peer Reviewed: Not Peer Reviewed
• Pages: 113-127
• Book Title: East Asian Film Stars
• ISBN: 9781349440054; 9781137029195
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137029195_8
• Keywords: Chow Yun-Fat, Hong Kong cinema
• Public URL: https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/438715
• Publisher URL: Details of the book are available at http://www.palgrave.com/gb/book/9781137029188?wt_mc=ThirdParty.SpringerLink.3.EPR653.About_eBook#otherversion=9781349440054.
• Contract Date: May 25, 2016