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| Hye
Seung Chung, Assistant Professor |
Hye
Seung Chung received her B.A. in English Literature from Ewha Woman’s
University (Seoul, South Korea) in 1994, her M.A. in Cinema Studies
at the College of Staten Island, C.U.N.Y. in 1999, and her Ph.D.
in Film and Television from the University of California, Los Angeles
in 2004. Her areas of specialization include: classical and contemporary
Hollywood cinema, race and multiculturalism in American popular
culture, feminist and postcolonial film theories, Asian American
media, East Asian/Korean cinema, and global Cold War cultures.
Before
joining the American Studies faculty at the University of Hawaii,
Manoa, in fall 2008, Professor Chung taught in the Department of
Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Michigan, Ann
Arbor, and the Department of Comparative Literature at Hamilton
College. During her first year at UH Manoa, she will be teaching
AMST 250: The Hollywood Century, AMST 352: Screening Asian Americans,
and AMST 451: Popular Culture.
Chung
is the author of Hollywood Asian: Philip Ahn and the Politics
of Cross-Ethnic Performance (Temple University Press, 2006).
As the first book-length study of Korean identities in American
cinema and television, this volume investigates the career of Philip
Ahn (1905-1978), a pioneering Asian American screen icon as well
as the son of celebrated Korean nationalist An Ch’ang-ho.
Far more complex than a conventional star biography, this transnational
study bridges American and Korean film histories; suggests new theoretical
paradigms with which to address cross-ethnic performance and Asian
American spectatorship; and explores the role of American foreign
policies in the construction of Hollywood’s “Oriental
genres” from the 1930s to the 1950s. Drawing upon a wide range
of archival documents from the actor’s personal papers and
studio memos to files of federal government agencies, Professor
Chung’s book addresses a number of significant historical,
theoretical, and critical issues pertaining to different disciplines
including film and media studies, cultural studies, Asian American
studies, and Korean studies. Since its publication, Hollywood
Asian has received positive reviews in Library Journal,
Asian Week, International Journal of Communication, Choice, Korean
Quarterly, Journal of American History, Journal of Popular Culture,
and Pacific Historical Review. For more information, see:
http://www.temple.edu/tempress/titles/1854_reg.html
In
addition to her book, Professor Chung’s scholarship on Korean
cinema has been published in such journals and anthologies as
Asian Cinema, Film and Philosophy, South Korean Golden
Age Melodrama, New Korean Cinema, and Seoul Searching. Her
most recent writings on Asian American identities in contemporary
television programs will appear in the forthcoming books Grace
under Pressure: Grey’s Anatomy Uncovered (edited by Cynthia
Burkhead and Hillary Robson) and Screwball Television: Critical
Perspectives on Gilmore Girls (edited by David Scott Diffrient
and David Lavery). A lifelong fan of classical Hollywood cinema,
she is now nurturing a passion for American television shows such
as The Wire, Lost, Weeds, Nip/Tuck, and Big Love
and hopes to teach a course exploring these and other Quality TV
series in the future.
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