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Hye Seung Chung - Hollywood Asian: Philip Ahn and the Politics of Cross-Ethnic Performance [Repost]
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Hye Seung Chung - Hollywood Asian: Philip Ahn and the Politics of Cross-Ethnic Performance
2006 | ISBN: 1592135153, 1592135161 | English | 248 pages | PDF | 1.3 MB
2006 | ISBN: 1592135153, 1592135161 | English | 248 pages | PDF | 1.3 MB
More than 20 years ago, I completed a book on Robert Florey, who directed Philip Ahn in three movies and at least twice as many filmed television dramas. The two were close friends, with Florey visiting Ahn's Moongate Restaurant, and Ahn writing Florey's name in Korean on the background of a Vietnamese prison set in ROGUES' REGIMENT. Florey's DAUGHTER OF SHANGHAI, starring the fabled Anna May Wong, featured Ahn in his first lead role, and was inducted into the National Film Registry in 2006.
However, back when I wrote on Florey, there was almost no writing about Asians in Hollywood. Books on Asians and cinema implied Japan, usually auteurist approaches to Kurosawa or Ozu, or perhaps Satyajit Ray in India, and maybe some fan interest in the Hong Kong martial arts genre. This has fortunately shifted in the last few years, and Professor Chung has been in the forefront, opening the subject of Asians in Hollywood for scholarship. Moreover, she has done so in several unique ways.