Seeing Jackie Chan’s Identity Through Who Am I?
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“Who am I?”－an essential question that everyone would ask sometime in life; so does Jackie Chan, now a global celebrity who even shouted out this question openly in his film Who Am I?(1998). The paper aims to solve Jackie Chan’s identity dilemma as a global celebrity throughout his transnational crossing from local Hong Kong cinema to global Hollywood. Through Who Am I?(1998), it explores how Chan’s offscreen identity and onscreen personae can be linked together via celebrity mechanism, modern and postmodern identity theories. The paper further argues that Chan’s celebrity is primarily produced by mass media in entertainment industries, such as Hong Kong cinema and Hollywood, and consumed by transnational audiences, thus subject to their authorities as well. Despite early identity crisis, Chan can eventually utilize his ambiguous identity as a survival strategy to stand out from numerous opponents, thereby winning the “celebrity game.” Further studies are needed when it comes to “Who is Jackie Chan?” now, especially with emerging “celebrity logics” on SNSs like Facebook where an online “Jackie Chan” with over 63 million of followers among other top “celebrities,” that is, an online “Jackie Chan”－dominant celebrity.
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“Who am I?”－an essential question that everyone would ask sometime in life; so does Jackie Chan, now a global celebrity who even shouted out this question openly in his film Who Am I?(1998). The paper aims to solve Jackie Chan’s identity dilemma as a global celebrity throughout his transnational crossing from local Hong Kong cinema to global Hollywood. Through Who Am I?(1998), it explores how Chan’s offscreen identity and onscreen personae can be linked together via celebrity mechanism, modern and postmodern identity theories. The paper further argues that Chan’s celebrity is primarily produced by mass media in entertainment industries, such as Hong Kong cinema and Hollywood, and consumed by transnational audiences, thus subject to their authorities as well. Despite early identity crisis, Chan can eventually utilize his ambiguous identity as a survival strategy to stand out from numerous opponents, thereby winning the “celebrity game.” Further studies are needed when it comes to “Who is Jackie Chan?” now, especially with emerging “celebrity logics” on SNSs like Facebook where an online “Jackie Chan” with over 63 million of followers among other top “celebrities,” that is, an online “Jackie Chan”－dominant celebrity.
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