Hollywood Asian : Philip Ahn and the Politics of Cross-Ethnic Performance.
Title:
Hollywood Asian : Philip Ahn and the Politics of Cross-Ethnic Performance.
Author:
Chung, Hye Seung.
ISBN:
9781592135172
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (256 pages)
Contents:
CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Life and Death of a Hollywood Asian -- PART I: ASIAN AMERICAN ACTS:PERFORMANCE AND SPECTATORSHIP -- 1 Portrait of a Patriot's Son: Philip Ahn and Korean Diasporic Identities in Hollywood -- 2 The Audience Who Knew Too Much: Oriental Masquerade and Ethnic Recognition among Asian Americans -- PART II: ORIENTAL GENRES, 1930s TO 1950s -- 3 Between Yellowphilia and Yellowphobia: Asian American Romance in Oriental Detective Films -- 4 State Intervention in the Imagining of Orientals in China Films of the 1930s and 1940s -- 5 Hollywood Goes to Korea: War, Melodrama, and the Biopic Politics of Battle Hymn -- Conclusion: Becoming "Father," Becoming Asian American -- Notes -- Filmography -- Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract:
From silent films to television programs, Hollywood has employed actors of various ethnicities to represent "Oriental"characters, from Caucasian stars like Loretta Young made up in yellow-face to Korean American pioneer Philip Ahn, whose more than 200 screen performances included roles as sadistic Japanese military officers in World War II movies and a wronged Chinese merchant in the TV show Bonanza. The first book-length study of Korean identities in American cinema and television, Hollywood Asian investigates the career of Ahn (1905-1978), a pioneering Asian American screen icon and son of celebrated Korean nationalist An Ch'ang-ho. In this groundbreaking scholarly study, Hye Seung Chung examines Ahn's career to suggest new theoretical paradigms for addressing cross-ethnic performance and Asian American spectatorship. Incorporating original material from a wide range of sources, including U.S. government and Hollywood screen archives, Chung's work offers a provocative and original contribution to cinema studies, cultural studies, and Asian American as well as Korean history.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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