LEADER 03221nam 22006014a 450 001 9910816364403321 005 20100909020425.0 010 $a0-8223-8982-7 024 7 $a10.1515/9780822389828 035 $a(CKB)1000000000758169 035 $a(EBL)1170520 035 $a(OCoLC)658055951 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000394595 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11257407 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000394595 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10388312 035 $a(PQKB)11372907 035 $a658055951$z220950498$z300813022 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1170520 035 $a(OCoLC)1148074908 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse80656 035 $a(DE-B1597)553992 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780822389828 035 $a(OCoLC)841915073 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000758169 100 $a20100824d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aSessue Hayakawa $esilent cinema and transnational stardom /$fDaisuke Miyao 210 $aDurham $cDuke University Press$d2007 215 $a1 online resource (398 p.) 225 1 $aa John Hope Franklin Center Book 300 $a"A John Hope Franklin Center book." 311 $a0-8223-3969-2 311 $a0-8223-3958-7 320 $aIncludes filmography: p. [333]-336. 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [337]-364) and index. 327 $aA 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. 330 $aCritical biography of Sessue Hayakawa, a Japanese actor who became a popular silent film star in the U.S., that looks at how Hollywood treated issues of race and nationality in the early twentieth century. 410 0$ae-Duke books scholarly collection. 676 $a791.4302/8092 676 $aB 700 $aMiyao$b Daisuke$01594221 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910816364403321 996 $aSessue Hayakawa$93914699 997 $aUNINA