1. Introduction
Part 1: Bromance Capital
2. Manufacturing Intimacy: The on and off-screen performance of coupledom by Asian BL celebrities
(Joyleen Christensen, University of Newcastle, Australia)
3. Bromancing of the Khans: From Hindi cinema's brothers in arms to Bollywood bromance!
(Vikrant Kishore, University of Nottingham Ningbo, China)
4. Leaving Johnny's: How Nishikido-Akanishi Bromance Transformed Their Post-Idol Success
(Nur Aliah Binti Mansor, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman, Malaysia)
5. Commodifying Queer Representation and Fan Service in Thai BL Lakhon (Dania Shaikh, Independent Researcher, India)
6. Fan-Snubbing, Bromances and Porus Masculinities: (re) scripting comradery capital in a Thai context
(Mark Vicars, Victoria University, Australia, Nuntiya Doungphummes, Mahidol University, Thailand and
Narongdej Phanthaphoommee, Mahidol University, Thailand)
7. Deconstructing Bromances: fan responses to the ending of celebrity bromances in Chinese Boy's Love adapted dramas (Yizhe Cui and Celia Lam)
Part 2: Comradery Capital
8. Following a Universal Star: Cine-politics, Comradery Capital and Kamal Haasan in Indian Cinema
(Raj Sony Jalarajan and Adith K. Suresh, MacEwan University, Edmonton, Canada)
9. Comradery Capital: Commodified celebrity interactions in Crazy Rich Asians cast (Celia Lam and Jackie Raphael)
10. Young NK Women Vloggers on YouTube and Their Self-Representational Techniques, (Haelin Jun and Aristea Fotopoulou, University of Brighton, UK)
11. Friendship? No, It Is Business!: How trainee capital is transformed into the commodification of celebrity in the K-pop industry (Hyejin Jo, Simon Fraser University, Canada)
12. Jury Casting in SING! China: Validity of Group Celebrity Persona in the study of Comradery Capital across China (Sevda Kaya Kitinur, Izmir University of Economics, Turkey)
13. Transregional Circulation of HK Celebrities in Mainland China, (Fang Qi, University of Hainan, China)
Index