Sessue Hayakawa : Silent Cinema and Transnational Stardom / / Daisuke Miyao
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| Autore: |
Miyao Daisuke
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| Titolo: |
Sessue Hayakawa : Silent Cinema and Transnational Stardom / / Daisuke Miyao
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| Pubblicazione: | Durham : , : Duke University Press, , 2007 |
| Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 0000 | |
| ©2007 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (398 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 791.4302/8092 |
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| Soggetto topico: | PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Sessue Hayakawa |
| ISBN: | 0-8223-8982-7 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910777995403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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