Sessue Hayakawa: Silent Cinema and Transnational Stardom (a John Hope Franklin Center Book)

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    • The book is quite interesting as it gets into American's fascination with Japanese culture or at least stereotypical Japanese culture and Japanese audience's perception that Hayakawa was too "American". The book's venture into describing Hayakawa's acting technique is confusing though.

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    Description While the actor Sessue Hayakawa is perhaps best known today for his Oscar-nominated turn as a Japanese military officer in The Bridge on the River Kwai , in the early twentieth century he was an internationally renowned silent film star, as recognizable as Charlie Chaplin or Douglas Fairbanks.

    In this critical study of Hayakawa's stardom, Daisuke Miyao reconstructs the Japanese actor's remarkable career, from the films that preceded his meteoric rise to fame as the star of Cecil B.

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    DeMille's The Cheat through his reign as a matinee idol and the subsequent decline and resurrection of his Hollywood fortunes. Drawing on early-twentieth-century sources in both English and Japanese, including Japanese-language newspapers in the United States, Miyao illuminates the construction and reception of Hayakawa's stardom as an ongoing process of cross-cultural negotiation. Hayakawa's early work included short films about Japan that were popular with American audiences as well as spy films that played upon anxieties about Japanese nationalism. Lasky production company sought to shape Hayakawa's image by emphasizing the actor's Japanese traits while portraying him as safely assimilated into U.

    Hayakawa himself struggled to maintain his sympathetic persona while creating more complex Japanese characters that would appeal to both American and Japanese audiences. The star's initial success with U.

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    This unique history of transnational silent-film stardom focuses attention on the ways that race, ethnicity, and nationality influenced the early development of the global film industry. The Best Books of Check out the top books of the year on our page Best Books of Product details Format Paperback pages Dimensions x x Looking for beautiful books?

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