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.
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.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
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 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
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