Hollywood Asian Philip Ahn and the Politics of Cross-Ethnic Performance

Name: Hollywood Asian Philip Ahn and the Politics of Cross-Ethnic Performance
Price: 34.42 USD
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9781592135165

ISBN-10: 1592135161

ISBN-13: 9781592135165

Edition: 2006

Authors: Hye Seung Chung

List price: $29.95

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Marketplace

1 new & used from $34.42

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Description:

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.

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Temple University Press
Publication date: 10/15/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 248
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 1.474
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction: The Life and Death of a Hollywood Asian



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



Oriental Genres, 1930s to 1950s



Between Yellowphilia and Yellowphobia: Asian American Romance in Oriental Detective Films



State Intervention in the Imagining of Orientals in China Films of the 1930s and 1940s



Hollywood Goes to Korea: War, Melodrama, and the Biopic Politics of Battle Hymn


Conclusion: Becoming "Father," Becoming Asian American


Notes


Filmography


Bibliography


Index