1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910972647103321

Autore

Miyao Daisuke

Titolo

Sessue Hayakawa : silent cinema and transnational stardom / / Daisuke Miyao

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Durham, : Duke University Press, 2007

ISBN

9780822389828

0822389827

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (398 p.)

Collana

a John Hope Franklin Center Book

Disciplina

791.4302/8092

B

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"A John Hope Franklin Center book."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes filmography: p. [333]-336.

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

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.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910898136603321

Titolo

Annals of long-term care

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Plainsboro, NJ, : MultiMedia Health Care/Freedom LLC

ISSN

1524-7929

Disciplina

362.16

Soggetti

Older people - Nursing home care

Older people - Long-term care

Nursing home care

Long-Term Care

Nursing Homes

Personnes âgées - Soins en établissements de soins, de cure, etc

Personnes âgées - Soins de longue durée

Soins en établissements de soins, de cure, etc

Soins de longue durée

Établissements de soins, de cure, etc

nursing homes

Periodical

Periodicals.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico

Note generali

Refereed/Peer-reviewed

Title from journal home page; viewed Jan. 18, 2001.

Published: New York, NY : American Geriatrics Society, <2008->