Sessue Hayakawa: silent cinema and transnational stardom

Introduction -- Part 1. Emperor, Buddhist, Spy, or Indian: The Pre-Star Period of Sessue Hayakawa (1914/15) -- 1. A Star Is Born: The Transnational Success of The Cheat and Its Race and Gender Politics -- 2. Screen Debut: O Mimi San, or The Mikado in Picturesque Japan -- 3. Christianity versus Buddh...

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1. Verfasser: Miyao, Daisuke (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Durham Duke University Press 2007
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Zusammenfassung:Introduction -- Part 1. Emperor, Buddhist, Spy, or Indian: The Pre-Star Period of Sessue Hayakawa (1914/15) -- 1. A Star Is Born: The Transnational Success of The Cheat and Its Race and Gender Politics -- 2. Screen Debut: O Mimi San, or The Mikado in Picturesque Japan -- 3. Christianity versus Buddhism: The Melodramatic Imagination in The Wrath of the Gods -- 4. Doubleness: American Images of Japanese Spies in The Typhoon -- 5. The Noble Savage and the Vanishing Race: Japanese Actors in "Indian Films" -- Part 2. Villain, Friend, or Lover: Sessue Hayakawa's Stardom at Lasky-Paramount (1916/18) -- 6. The Making of an Americanized Japanese Gentleman: The Honorable Friend and Hashimura Togo -- 7. More Americanized than the Mexican: The Melodrama of Self-Sacrifice and the Genteel Tradition in Forbidden Paths -- 8. Sympathetic Villains and Victim-Heroes: The Soul of Kura San and The Call of the East -- 9. Self-Sacrifice in the First World War: The Secret Game -- 10. The Cosmopolitan Way of Life: The Americanization of Sessue Hayakawa in Magazines -- Part 3. "Triple Consciousness": Sessue Hayakawa's Stardom at Haworth Pictures Corporation (1918/22) -- 11. Balancing Japaneseness and Americanization: Authenticity and Patriotism in His Birthright and Banzai -- 12. Return of the Americanized Orientals: Robertson-Cole's Expansion and Standardization of Sessue Hayakawa's Star Vehicles -- 13. The Mask: Sessue Hayakawa's Redefinition of Silent Film Acting -- 14. The Star Falls: Postwar Nativism and the Decline of Sessue Hayakawa's Stardom -- Part 4. Stardom and Japanese Modernity: Sessue Hayakawa in Japan -- 15. Americanization and Nationalism: The Japanese Reception of Sessue Hayakawa -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Filmography -- Bibliography
Beschreibung:"A John Hope Franklin Center book.". - Includes filmography: p. [333]-336. - Includes bibliographical references (p. [337]-364) and index
Beschreibung:xvi, 379 p
ISBN:9780822389828
0822389827

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