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Sessue Hayakawa : silent cinema and transnational stardom /
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.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2007.
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| Colección: | e-Duke books scholarly collection.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.