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Hollywood Asian : Philip Ahn and the politics of cross-ethnic performance

Hye Seung Chung (Author)
A study of Korean identities in American cinema and television, this work investigates the career of Ahn (1905-1978), a pioneering Asian American screen icon and son of celebrated Korean nationalist An Ch'ang-ho
eBook, English, 2006
Temple University Press, Philadelphia, 2006
History
1 online resource (xxii, 232 pages) : illustrations, photographs
9781592135172, 9781281093769, 9781592135158, 9786611093761, 159213517X, 1281093769, 1592135153, 6611093761
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I: Asian American acts: performance and spectatorship
Portrait of a Patriot's son: Philip Ahn and Korean diasporic identities in Hollywood
The audience who knew too much: Oriental masquerade and ethnic recognition among Asian Americans
II: Oriental genres, 1930s to 1950s
Between yellowphilia and yellowphobia: Asian American romance in Oriental detective films
State intervention in the imaging of Orientals in China films of the 1930s and 1940s
Hollywood goes to Korea: war, melodrama, and the biopic politics of battle hymn
Becoming "Father," becoming Asian American
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010
English