Ju Yon Kim
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781479897896
- eISBN:
- 9781479837519
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479897896.003.0002
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Asian Studies
This chapter explores the routines of race and nation by reading The Yellow Jacket, by J. Harry Benrimo and George C. Hazelton Jr., and Our Town, by Thornton Wilder. It considers how the two plays ...
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This chapter explores the routines of race and nation by reading The Yellow Jacket, by J. Harry Benrimo and George C. Hazelton Jr., and Our Town, by Thornton Wilder. It considers how the two plays integrate the performance of quotidian activities with nonrealistic stage conventions, defamiliarizing everyday behaviors to encourage audiences to identify with and to distance themselves from the world depicted on the stage. It also discusses the two plays' use of non-naturalistic theatrical conventions to present the racial mundane, along with their projection of a distinct spectatorial position that set limits on the crossings that they promised. It shows that the plays' experiments with Chinese theatrical practices are intertwined with the relationship between habitual behaviors and social delineations—the site of so much contestation in debates about Chinese immigration.Less
This chapter explores the routines of race and nation by reading The Yellow Jacket, by J. Harry Benrimo and George C. Hazelton Jr., and Our Town, by Thornton Wilder. It considers how the two plays integrate the performance of quotidian activities with nonrealistic stage conventions, defamiliarizing everyday behaviors to encourage audiences to identify with and to distance themselves from the world depicted on the stage. It also discusses the two plays' use of non-naturalistic theatrical conventions to present the racial mundane, along with their projection of a distinct spectatorial position that set limits on the crossings that they promised. It shows that the plays' experiments with Chinese theatrical practices are intertwined with the relationship between habitual behaviors and social delineations—the site of so much contestation in debates about Chinese immigration.
Elizabeth B. Crist and Wayne Shirley (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- October 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780300111217
- eISBN:
- 9780300133479
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300111217.003.0005
- Subject:
- Music, History, American
This chapter chronicles the events in Aaron Copeland's life throughout World War II up until its aftermath. Copeland returned to Hollywood in 1943, after the success of his film scores for Of Mice ...
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This chapter chronicles the events in Aaron Copeland's life throughout World War II up until its aftermath. Copeland returned to Hollywood in 1943, after the success of his film scores for Of Mice and Men and Our Town, where he then composed music for yet another film with Lewis Milestone, The North Star. A work of wartime propaganda that fostered pro-Soviet and anti-Nazi sentiment, the movie did not find success either in terms of film or music. The two worked a third time, however, on The Red Pony, a work based on the novel of John Steinbeck. During that same year, Copeland also worked with William Wyler on The Heiress, for which he was awarded an Academy Award in 1950 for best film score.Less
This chapter chronicles the events in Aaron Copeland's life throughout World War II up until its aftermath. Copeland returned to Hollywood in 1943, after the success of his film scores for Of Mice and Men and Our Town, where he then composed music for yet another film with Lewis Milestone, The North Star. A work of wartime propaganda that fostered pro-Soviet and anti-Nazi sentiment, the movie did not find success either in terms of film or music. The two worked a third time, however, on The Red Pony, a work based on the novel of John Steinbeck. During that same year, Copeland also worked with William Wyler on The Heiress, for which he was awarded an Academy Award in 1950 for best film score.
Ju Yon Kim
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781479897896
- eISBN:
- 9781479837519
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479897896.003.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Asian Studies
This book explores the historical and theoretical relationship between the racial formation of Asian Americans and the mundane. More specifically, it considers how the paradox of Asian American ...
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This book explores the historical and theoretical relationship between the racial formation of Asian Americans and the mundane. More specifically, it considers how the paradox of Asian American racial formation is sustained through the mundane's ambiguous relationship to the body: it is enacted by the body, but may or may not be of the body. It highlights the social significance attached to certain everyday practices and to the possibility of adopting and transferring those practices across racial lines. It also examines the relationship among racialization, theatricality, and the racial mundane by reading two plays: The Yellow Jacket by J. Harry Benrimo and George C. Hazelton, Jr., and Our Town by Thornton Wilder.Less
This book explores the historical and theoretical relationship between the racial formation of Asian Americans and the mundane. More specifically, it considers how the paradox of Asian American racial formation is sustained through the mundane's ambiguous relationship to the body: it is enacted by the body, but may or may not be of the body. It highlights the social significance attached to certain everyday practices and to the possibility of adopting and transferring those practices across racial lines. It also examines the relationship among racialization, theatricality, and the racial mundane by reading two plays: The Yellow Jacket by J. Harry Benrimo and George C. Hazelton, Jr., and Our Town by Thornton Wilder.
