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Autore: | Miyao Daisuke |
Titolo: | Sessue Hayakawa : silent cinema and transnational stardom / / Daisuke Miyao |
Pubblicazione: | Durham, : Duke University Press, 2007 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (398 p.) |
Disciplina: | 791.4302/8092 |
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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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Sessue Hayakawa |
ISBN: | 0-8223-8982-7 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910816364403321 |
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