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Some of Us Are Looking at the Stars: Japanese Women, Hong Kong Cinema, and Transcultural Fandom

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dc.contributor Klinger, Barbara
dc.creator Morimoto, Lori Hitchcock
dc.date 2011-10-19T20:18:50Z
dc.date 2028-06-19T20:18:51Z
dc.date 2011-10-19T20:18:50Z
dc.date 2011
dc.date.accessioned 2023-02-21T11:18:25Z
dc.date.available 2023-02-21T11:18:25Z
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/2022/13744
dc.identifier.uri http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/252928
dc.description Thesis (Ph.D.) - Indiana University, Communication and Culture, 2011
dc.description This dissertation offers a historical materialist perspective on the Japanese female fandom of Hong Kong stars that arose in the mid-1980s and peaked in the late 1990s. This fandom was unique among non-diasporic, transnational audiences of Hong Kong cinema for its female composition and its star-centeredness, which together constitute an alternative lens through which to comprehend the meanings and implications of transcultural media fandom. Employing contemporaneous fan-produced writing, film criticism, journalism, and promotional literature for films, media technologies, and transnational travel to Hong Kong in the reconstruction of its discursive surround, the dissertation interrogates the dialectical relationship between fan practices and subjectivities. Through examination of the media discourses that produced this fandom in the Japanese popular imagination, the material means by which fans pursued their interest in Hong Kong stars, and the intersection of fan affect and transnationally-situated experience, the dissertation makes the case for a pragmatics of transcultural fandom that accounts for not only its transnational socio-political context, but also the gender and popular/fan cultural contexts through which it was experienced and understood.
dc.language en
dc.publisher [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University
dc.subject Cultural Studies
dc.subject Fandom
dc.subject Hong Kong Cinema
dc.subject Japan
dc.subject Spectatorship
dc.subject Film Studies
dc.subject Asian Studies
dc.title Some of Us Are Looking at the Stars: Japanese Women, Hong Kong Cinema, and Transcultural Fandom
dc.type Doctoral Dissertation


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