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Record Nr.

UNINA9910823411503321

Autore

Chung Hye Seung <1971->

Titolo

Hollywood Asian : Philip Ahn and the politics of cross-ethnic performance / / Hye Seung Chung

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, : Temple University Press, 2006

ISBN

1-281-09376-9

9786611093761

1-59213-517-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (256 p.)

Disciplina

791.43/6529957

Soggetti

Asians in motion pictures

Asian Americans in motion pictures

Motion pictures - United States - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Filmography.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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, 1930's TO 1950's; 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 1930's and 1940's

5 Hollywood Goes to Korea: War, Melodrama, and the Biopic Politics of Battle Hymn Conclusion: Becoming "Father," Becoming Asian American; Notes; Filmography; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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