Hollywood Asian : Philip Ahn and the politics of cross-ethnic performance / / Hye Seung Chung
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| Autore: |
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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| Pubblicazione: | Philadelphia, : Temple University Press, 2006 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (256 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 791.43/6529957 |
| Soggetto topico: | Asians in motion pictures |
| Asian Americans in motion pictures | |
| Motion pictures - United States - History | |
| 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Hollywood Asian |
| ISBN: | 1-281-09376-9 |
| 9786611093761 | |
| 1-59213-517-X | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910823411503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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