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Chung Hye Seung <1971-> |
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Titolo |
Hollywood Asian : Philip Ahn and the politics of cross-ethnic performance / / Hye Seung Chung |
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Philadelphia, : Temple University Press, 2006 |
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ISBN |
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1-281-09376-9 |
9786611093761 |
1-59213-517-X |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (256 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Asians in motion pictures |
Asian Americans in motion pictures |
Motion pictures - United States - History |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Filmography. |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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