TY - JOUR
T1 - Discovering the digital Stephen Chow
T2 - The transborder influence of Chow’s films on the Chinese Internet in the 2010s
AU - Chew, Matthew Ming-tak
N1 - Publisher copyright:
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The author(s) received no financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.
PY - 2020/6/1
Y1 - 2020/6/1
N2 - This study uncovers and analyzes the transborder influence of Stephen Chow’s films in China in the 2010s. This influence takes a form that is new and different from that of the first three fan cultures of Chow’s films. It operates through various online carnivalesque items co-created by Chinese netizens and cultural producers. I document this with an investigation of the online catchphrases, visual memes, and web novels inspired by Chow’s films. One can interpret this new wave of influence as the fourth fan culture of Chow’s films or as a merger between Hong Kong nonsensical culture with the Chinese online carnival. This study’s data come from primary sources including memes and web novels and secondary sources including relevant news reports, online commentaries, and Chinese-language scholarship.
AB - This study uncovers and analyzes the transborder influence of Stephen Chow’s films in China in the 2010s. This influence takes a form that is new and different from that of the first three fan cultures of Chow’s films. It operates through various online carnivalesque items co-created by Chinese netizens and cultural producers. I document this with an investigation of the online catchphrases, visual memes, and web novels inspired by Chow’s films. One can interpret this new wave of influence as the fourth fan culture of Chow’s films or as a merger between Hong Kong nonsensical culture with the Chinese online carnival. This study’s data come from primary sources including memes and web novels and secondary sources including relevant news reports, online commentaries, and Chinese-language scholarship.
KW - Chinese memes
KW - Chinese online carnival
KW - Hong Kong popular culture
KW - Stephen Chow
KW - transborder
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85086842275&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/2059436420928058
DO - 10.1177/2059436420928058
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:85086842275
SN - 2059-4364
VL - 5
SP - 124
EP - 137
JO - Global Media and China
JF - Global Media and China
IS - 2
ER -