Articles / Book Chapters by Dorothy Wai Sim LAU
Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, 2014
Digital Culture and Humanities: Challenges and Developments in a Globalized Asia, 2020
Studies in Media and Communication, 2016
Latest decades have witnessed the proliferation of digital media in Hong Kong action-based genre ... more Latest decades have witnessed the proliferation of digital media in Hong Kong action-based genre films, elevating the graphical display of screen action to new levels. While digital effects are tools to assist the action performanJe of non-kung fu actors, Dragon Tiger Gote (2006), a comic-turned movie, becomes a case-in-point that it a;plies digitality to Yen, a celebrated kung fu star who is famed by his genuine martial dexterity. In the frarnework of remediatiJn, this essay will explore how the digital media intervene of the star construction of Donnie yen. As Dragon Tiger Gatereveals, technological effects work to refashion and repurpose Yen's persona by combining digital effects and the kung fu body. While the narrative of pain and injury reveals the attempt of visual immediacy,-the-hybridized bodily representation evokes awareness more to the act of representing kung fu than to the kung fu itself. The analysis will, thus, argue yen,s choreographic image becomes an instance of hypermidia, questioning thi "real" kung fu and demonstrating iile power of mediation in the digital era.
Journal of Chinese Cinemas, 2013
Social Media: Global Perspectives, Applications and Benefits and Dangers, 2014
Lasting Screen Stars: Personas that Endure and Images that Fade, 2016
Media Culture in Transnational Asia
The International Journal of the Humanities: Annual Review
Journal of Chinese Cinemas
Transformative Works and Cultures
Amateur-produced, web-based videos have become an emergent locus of emulating, multiplying, and r... more Amateur-produced, web-based videos have become an emergent locus of emulating, multiplying, and reinventing the appeal of martial arts stars, which was once a product of professionals of industrial mechanism. The constellation of user-generated practices on platforms such as YouTube, Twitter, Wikipedia, and Facebook that depend on amateur content has become a vital force driving popular construction that blurs the line between the professional and the amateur. Celebrated transnational Chinese actor Donnie Yen, who has gained huge fame thanks to his work in martial arts hits, was cast in the Star Wars feature Rogue One (2016). An analysis of two videos on YouTube that (re)narrativize Yen's persona in Rogue One shows how video makers working outside the film industry open up new aspects of articulating and understanding the star. Amateur video producers unsettle Yen's status, which is principally anchored on his martial authenticity and acrobatic skills, by either mixing the a...
Books by Dorothy Wai Sim LAU
As Chinese performers have become more visible on global screens, their professional images – onc... more As Chinese performers have become more visible on global screens, their professional images – once the preserve of studios and agents – have been increasingly relayed and reworked by film fans. Web technology has made searching, poaching, editing, positing, and sharing texts significantly easier. Moreover, by using a variety of seamless and innovative methods, a new mode of personality construction has been developed. With case studies of high-profile stars like Jackie Chan, Jet Li, Donnie Yen, and Michelle Yeoh, this ground-breading book examines transnational Chinese stardom as a Web-based phenomenon, and as an outcome of the participatory practices of cyber fans. By grounding the theory and praxis of Chinese stardom in a cyber-context, this book proffers a critical intervention of Chineseness and redress some inadequacies of the current scholarship on the subject by advancing the exploration of the dynamics borne out of technological apparatuses, cultural discourses, and network ...
Conference Papers by Dorothy Wai Sim LAU
Public Talks and Invited Lectures by Dorothy Wai Sim LAU
HKBU-SHU Online Workshop on Smart Media Technologies, AI and Ethics, and Film Arts, 2020
American Studies Program. The University of Hong Kong, 2021
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Articles / Book Chapters by Dorothy Wai Sim LAU
Books by Dorothy Wai Sim LAU
Conference Papers by Dorothy Wai Sim LAU
Public Talks and Invited Lectures by Dorothy Wai Sim LAU