Hollywood Asian - Philip Ahn And the Politics of Cross-ethnic Performance

Klappentext How a Korean American actor became a Hollywood "Oriental" star Zusammenfassung 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. It examines Ahn's career to suggest theoretical paradigms for addressing cross-ethnic performance and Asian American spectatorship. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: The Life and Death of a Hollywood AsianPART I Hollywood Asians: From Actor to Spectator1: 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 AmericansPART II Oriental Genres! 1930s to 1950s3: Between Yellowphilia and Yellowphobia: Asian American Romance in Oriental Detective Films; 4: State Intervention in the Imagining of Orientals in China Films of the 1930s and 1940s; 5: Hollywood Goes to Korea: War! Melodrama! and the Biopic Politics of Battle Hymn Conclusion: 6: Becoming "Father!" Becoming Asian American Filmography; Bibliography

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• Authors: Hye Seung Chung
• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.10.2006
• EAN: 9781592135158
• ISBN: 978-1-59213-515-8
• No. of pages: 232
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Asien, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, Fernsehen, TV, Regionalstudien