Miyao Sessue Hayakawa

Silent Cinema and Transnational Stardom
1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8982-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 400 Seiten

Reihe: a John Hope Franklin Center Book

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Miyao, Daisuke

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.