"Sessue Hayakawa has not received the attention he deserves as one of the most popular and prolific stars of the American silent screen, and this book brings a wealth of material to light. Without replicating existing research, Daisuke Miyao makes an important contribution to three developing areas within film studies: new approaches to the history of early silent film, studies of the impact of Asian Americans on Hollywood, and studies of transnational links among various film industries around the world."--Gina Marchetti, author of "From Tian'anmen to Times Square: Transnational China and the Chinese Diaspora on Global Screens, 1989-1997"…mehr
"Sessue Hayakawa has not received the attention he deserves as one of the most popular and prolific stars of the American silent screen, and this book brings a wealth of material to light. Without replicating existing research, Daisuke Miyao makes an important contribution to three developing areas within film studies: new approaches to the history of early silent film, studies of the impact of Asian Americans on Hollywood, and studies of transnational links among various film industries around the world."--Gina Marchetti, author of "From Tian'anmen to Times Square: Transnational China and the Chinese Diaspora on Global Screens, 1989-1997"
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.
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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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