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- ISBN 9781350434394
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 15 Oct 2026
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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?
Ian Dixon is Associate Professor of Film Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
Kirsty Fairclough is Reader in Screen Studies at the School of Digital Arts (SODA) at Manchester
Metropolitan University, UK.
Lisa Gotto is a Professor of Film Theory at the Institute for Theatre, Film and Media Studies (TFM) at 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).
