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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777995403321

Autore

Miyao Daisuke

Titolo

Sessue Hayakawa : Silent Cinema and Transnational Stardom / / Daisuke Miyao

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Durham : , : Duke University Press, , 2007

Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 0000

©2007

ISBN

0-8223-8982-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (398 p.)

Collana

a John Hope Franklin Center Book

Disciplina

791.4302/8092

B

Soggetti

PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"A John Hope Franklin Center book."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [337]-364) and index.

Includes filmography: p. [333]-336.

Nota di contenuto

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 -- --



Americanization and nationalism: the Japanese reception of Sessue Hayakawa.

Sommario/riassunto

Critical biography of Sessue Hayakawa, a Japanese actor who became a popular silent film star in the U.S., that looks at how Hollywood treated issues of race and nationality in the early twentieth century.