| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 379 p.) : ill. |
| Series |
e-Duke books scholarly collection.
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| Note |
"A John Hope Franklin Center book." |
| Bibliography |
Includes filmography: p. [333]-336. |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [337]-364) and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
| Note |
Description based on print version record. |
| Subject |
Hayakawa, Sesshu, 1889-1973.
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Hayakawa, Sesshu, 1889-1973.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
ProQuest (Firm)
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| Other Form: |
Original (DLC) 2006027824 (OCoLC)71146384 |
| ISBN |
0822339587 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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9780822339588 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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0822339692 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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9780822339694 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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9780822389828 |
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0822389827 |
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