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Miyao Daisuke |
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Sessue Hayakawa : Silent Cinema and Transnational Stardom / / Daisuke Miyao |
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Durham : , : Duke University Press, , 2007 |
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Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 0000 |
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©2007 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (398 p.) |
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Collana |
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a John Hope Franklin Center Book |
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Soggetti |
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PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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"A John Hope Franklin Center book." |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [337]-364) and index. |
Includes filmography: p. [333]-336. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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A star is born: the transnational success of The Cheat and its race and gender politics -- Screen debut: O Mimi San, or the Mikado in picturesque Japan -- Christianity versus Buddhism: the melodramatic imagination in The wrath of the gods -- Doubleness: American images of Japanese spies in The typhoon -- The noble savage and the vanishing race: Japanese actors in "Indian films" -- The making of an Americanized Japanese gentleman: the honorable friend and Hashimura Togo -- More Americanized than the Mexican: the melodrama of self-sacrifice and the genteel tradition in Forbidden paths -- Sympathetic villains and victim-heroes: the soul of Kura San and The call of the east -- Self-sacrifice in the first World War: The secret game -- The cosmopolitan way of life: the Americanization of Sessue Hayakawa in magazines -- Balancing Japaneseness and Americanization: authenticity and patriotism in his birthright and Banzai return of the Americanized Orientals: Robertson-Cole's expansion and standardization of Sessue Hayakawa's star vehicles -- The mask: Sessue Hayakawa's redefinition of silent film acting -- The star falls: postwar nativism and the decline of Sessue Hayakawa's stardom -- -- |
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