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<strong>Gendered Vulnerability in Transnational Action Cinema: <em>xXx, The Great Wall,
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<span style="color:#696969">***Please note this seminar will be held at UTS</span><br>
<span style="color:#FF8C00">CB05B.01.014 </span><br>
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Transnational co-productions have become an increasingly favoured model to ensure wide distribution for high-budget films across multiple markets, with many contemporary action films oriented toward the United States, China, and India. Transnational financing
in Chinese cinema has created new professional trajectories for action cinema stars such as Daniel Wu (USA/Hong Kong), Donnie Yen (Hong Kong) and Tony Jaa (Thailand). Correspondingly, narrative archetypes around travelling warriors have been reworked to accommodate
the co-existence of stars from multiple national cinemas. This paper examines the gendered aspects of these transnational narratives, focusing on the masculinisation of travel as a crucial component of the geographical imaginaries produced by action blockbusters.
It takes as its key examples D. J. Caruso’s <em>xXx: The Return of Xander Cage</em> (2017), featuring a rambling team of North American, Thai, Australian and Hong Kong-based action stars; Zhang Yimou’s
<em>The Great Wall</em> (aka Cháng Chéng, 2016), which includes a North American protagonist leading Chinese soldiers in their defence along the Great Wall; and Stanley Tong’s
<em>Kung Fu Yoga</em> (2017), a Chinese-Indian co-production that allows Jackie Chan to resurrect his familiar relic-hunter role from
<em>The Armour of God </em>(Chan and Tsang, 1986). The paper argues that contrasts between masculine protagonists are frequently used to signal deep cultural differences, but that they can also expose masculine heroes to new kinds of vulnerabilities in more
subtle cross-cultural encounters.<br>
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<strong>Timothy Laurie</strong> teaches global cinema in the School of Communication at the
<strong>University of Technology Sydney</strong>. His main research interest is cultural identity and gender in popular culture, with a focus on music and film. He is currently co-authoring
<em>Masculinity After Deleuze</em> (with Anna Hickey-Moody) for Bloomsbury. <a href="mailto:Timothy.Laurie@uts.edu.au" style="word-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(109, 198, 221); font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;">
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