Sessue Hayakawa

Name: Sessue Hayakawa
Brand: Duke University Press
SKU: 9780822339694
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Silent Cinema and Transnational Stardom

Szerző: Daisuke Miyao

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Kötés: Puha kötésű

Kiadó: Duke University Press

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While the actor Sessue Hayakawa (1886-1973) is perhaps best known today for his Oscar-nominated turn...

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Szerző

Daisuke Miyao

Nyelv

Angol

Kötés

Könyv - Puha kötésű

Kiadva

2007

oldal

400

EAN

9780822339694

ISBN

0822339692

Enbook ID

04938513

Kiadó

Duke University Press

Súly

608

Méretek

227 x 155 x 25

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While the actor Sessue Hayakawa (1886-1973) is perhaps best known today for his Oscar-nominated turn as a Japanese military officer in "The Bridge on the River Kwai "(1957), 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. DeMille's "The Cheat" (1915) 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. The Jesse L. Lasky production company sought to shape Hayakawa's image by emphasizing the actor's Japanese traits while portraying him as safely assimilated into U.S. culture. 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.S. audiences created ambivalence in Japan, where some described him as traitorously Americanized and others as a positive icon of modernized Japan. 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.

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