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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.
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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.
Produktdetails
- Produktdetails
- Verlag: Duke University Press
- Seitenzahl: 400
- Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2007
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 223mm x 182mm x 30mm
- Gewicht: 671g
- ISBN-13: 9780822339588
- ISBN-10: 0822339587
- Artikelnr.: 22528747
- Verlag: Duke University Press
- Seitenzahl: 400
- Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2007
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 223mm x 182mm x 30mm
- Gewicht: 671g
- ISBN-13: 9780822339588
- ISBN-10: 0822339587
- Artikelnr.: 22528747
Daisuke Miyao is Assistant Professor of Japanese Literature and Film at the University of Oregon. He is a coeditor of Casio Abe’s Beat Takeshi vs. Takeshi Kitano and a co-translator of Kiju Yoshida’s Ozu’s Anti-Cinema.
List of Illustration ix
List of Abbreviations xi
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction 1
PART ONE: 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 21
2. Screen Debut: O Mimi San, or The Mikado in Picturesque Japan 50
3. Christianity versus Buddhism: The Melodramatic Imagination in The Wrath
of the Gods 57
4. Doubleness: American Images of Japanese Spies in The Typhoon 66
5. The Noble Savage and the Vanishing Race: Japanese Actors in "Indian
Films" 76
PART TWO: 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 87
7. More Americanized than the Mexican: The Melodrama of Self-Sacrifice and
the Genteel Tradition in Forbidden Paths 106
8. Sympathetic Villains and Victim-Heroes: The Soul of Kura San and The
Call of the East 117
9. Self-Sacrifice in the First World War: The Secret Game 127
10. The Cosmopolitan Way of Life: The Americanization of the Sessue
Hayakawa in Magazines 136
PART THREE: "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 153
12. Return of the Americanized Orientals: Robertson-Cole’s Expansion and
Standardization of Sessue Hayakaway’s Star Vehicles 168
13. The Mask: Sessue Hayakawa’s Redefinition of Silent Film Acting 195
14. The Star Falls: Postwar Nativism and the Decline of Sessue Hayakawa’s
Stardom 214
PART FOUR: Stardom and Japanese Modernity: Sessue Hayakawa in Japan
15. Americanization and Nationalism: The Japanese Reception of Sessue
Hayakawa 235
Epilogue 261
Notes 283
Filmography 333
Bibliography 337
Index 365
List of Abbreviations xi
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction 1
PART ONE: 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 21
2. Screen Debut: O Mimi San, or The Mikado in Picturesque Japan 50
3. Christianity versus Buddhism: The Melodramatic Imagination in The Wrath
of the Gods 57
4. Doubleness: American Images of Japanese Spies in The Typhoon 66
5. The Noble Savage and the Vanishing Race: Japanese Actors in "Indian
Films" 76
PART TWO: 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 87
7. More Americanized than the Mexican: The Melodrama of Self-Sacrifice and
the Genteel Tradition in Forbidden Paths 106
8. Sympathetic Villains and Victim-Heroes: The Soul of Kura San and The
Call of the East 117
9. Self-Sacrifice in the First World War: The Secret Game 127
10. The Cosmopolitan Way of Life: The Americanization of the Sessue
Hayakawa in Magazines 136
PART THREE: "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 153
12. Return of the Americanized Orientals: Robertson-Cole’s Expansion and
Standardization of Sessue Hayakaway’s Star Vehicles 168
13. The Mask: Sessue Hayakawa’s Redefinition of Silent Film Acting 195
14. The Star Falls: Postwar Nativism and the Decline of Sessue Hayakawa’s
Stardom 214
PART FOUR: Stardom and Japanese Modernity: Sessue Hayakawa in Japan
15. Americanization and Nationalism: The Japanese Reception of Sessue
Hayakawa 235
Epilogue 261
Notes 283
Filmography 333
Bibliography 337
Index 365
List of Illustration ix
List of Abbreviations xi
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction 1
PART ONE: 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 21
2. Screen Debut: O Mimi San, or The Mikado in Picturesque Japan 50
3. Christianity versus Buddhism: The Melodramatic Imagination in The Wrath
of the Gods 57
4. Doubleness: American Images of Japanese Spies in The Typhoon 66
5. The Noble Savage and the Vanishing Race: Japanese Actors in "Indian
Films" 76
PART TWO: 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 87
7. More Americanized than the Mexican: The Melodrama of Self-Sacrifice and
the Genteel Tradition in Forbidden Paths 106
8. Sympathetic Villains and Victim-Heroes: The Soul of Kura San and The
Call of the East 117
9. Self-Sacrifice in the First World War: The Secret Game 127
10. The Cosmopolitan Way of Life: The Americanization of the Sessue
Hayakawa in Magazines 136
PART THREE: "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 153
12. Return of the Americanized Orientals: Robertson-Cole’s Expansion and
Standardization of Sessue Hayakaway’s Star Vehicles 168
13. The Mask: Sessue Hayakawa’s Redefinition of Silent Film Acting 195
14. The Star Falls: Postwar Nativism and the Decline of Sessue Hayakawa’s
Stardom 214
PART FOUR: Stardom and Japanese Modernity: Sessue Hayakawa in Japan
15. Americanization and Nationalism: The Japanese Reception of Sessue
Hayakawa 235
Epilogue 261
Notes 283
Filmography 333
Bibliography 337
Index 365
List of Abbreviations xi
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction 1
PART ONE: 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 21
2. Screen Debut: O Mimi San, or The Mikado in Picturesque Japan 50
3. Christianity versus Buddhism: The Melodramatic Imagination in The Wrath
of the Gods 57
4. Doubleness: American Images of Japanese Spies in The Typhoon 66
5. The Noble Savage and the Vanishing Race: Japanese Actors in "Indian
Films" 76
PART TWO: 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 87
7. More Americanized than the Mexican: The Melodrama of Self-Sacrifice and
the Genteel Tradition in Forbidden Paths 106
8. Sympathetic Villains and Victim-Heroes: The Soul of Kura San and The
Call of the East 117
9. Self-Sacrifice in the First World War: The Secret Game 127
10. The Cosmopolitan Way of Life: The Americanization of the Sessue
Hayakawa in Magazines 136
PART THREE: "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 153
12. Return of the Americanized Orientals: Robertson-Cole’s Expansion and
Standardization of Sessue Hayakaway’s Star Vehicles 168
13. The Mask: Sessue Hayakawa’s Redefinition of Silent Film Acting 195
14. The Star Falls: Postwar Nativism and the Decline of Sessue Hayakawa’s
Stardom 214
PART FOUR: Stardom and Japanese Modernity: Sessue Hayakawa in Japan
15. Americanization and Nationalism: The Japanese Reception of Sessue
Hayakawa 235
Epilogue 261
Notes 283
Filmography 333
Bibliography 337
Index 365