03438nam 2200721Ia 450 991082341150332120240515183113.01-281-09376-997866110937611-59213-517-X(CKB)1000000000339839(EBL)298868(OCoLC)476074942(SSID)ssj0000172566(PQKBManifestationID)11182778(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000172566(PQKBWorkID)10151414(PQKB)10474969(SSID)ssj0000518355(PQKBManifestationID)12192094(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000518355(PQKBWorkID)10493803(PQKB)10845575(MiAaPQ)EBC298868(OCoLC)290552085(MdBmJHUP)muse15383(Au-PeEL)EBL298868(CaPaEBR)ebr10182524(CaONFJC)MIL109376(EXLCZ)99100000000033983920060328d2006 uy 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtccrHollywood Asian Philip Ahn and the politics of cross-ethnic performance /Hye Seung Chung1st ed.Philadelphia Temple University Press20061 online resource (256 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-59213-516-1 1-59213-515-3 Filmography.Includes bibliographical references and index.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's5 Hollywood Goes to Korea: War, Melodrama, and the Biopic Politics of Battle Hymn Conclusion: Becoming "Father," Becoming Asian American; Notes; Filmography; Bibliography; IndexFrom 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 AmericanAsians in motion picturesAsian Americans in motion picturesMotion picturesUnited StatesHistoryAsians in motion pictures.Asian Americans in motion pictures.Motion picturesHistory.791.43/6529957Chung Hye Seung1971-1646321MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910823411503321Hollywood Asian3993261UNINA