Hollywood Asian: Philip Ahn and the Politics of Cross-ethnic PerformanceFrom silent films to television programs, Hollywood has employed actors of various ethnicities to represent Orientalcharacters, 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. |
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Contents
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THE AUDIENCE WHO KNEW TOO MUCH Oriental Masquerade and Ethnic Recognition among Asian Americans | 35 |
Oriental Genres 1930s to 1950s | 59 |
BETWEEN YELLOWPHILIA AND YELLOWPHOBIA Asian American Romance in Oriental Detective Films | 61 |
STATE INTERVENTION IN THE IMAGINING OF ORIENTALS IN CHINA FILMS OF THE 1930s AND 1940s | 89 |
HOLLYWOOD GOES TO KOREA War Melodrama and the Biopic Politics of Battle Hymn | 122 |
Becoming Father Becoming Asian American | 171 |
NOTES | 193 |
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| Title | Hollywood Asian: Philip Ahn and the Politics of Cross-ethnic Performance Book collections on Project MUSE |
| Author | Hye Seung Chung |
| Publisher | Temple University Press, 2006 |
| ISBN | 159213517X, 9781592135172 |
| Length | 255 pages |
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