{"product_id":"sessue-hayakawa-9780822339588","title":"Sessue Hayakawa","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Fascinating . . . an exceptionally rich and provocative study of race and national imagery at the beginnings of the Hollywood film industry.”—Richard Peña, Program Director, Film Society of Lincoln Center, and Professor of Film Studies, Columbia University\u003cbr\u003e“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 \u003ci\u003eFrom Tian’anmen to Times Square: Transnational China and the Chinese Diaspora on Global Screens, 1989–1997\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This is the definitive work on Sessue Hayakawa. It is a work of great originality, a truly unique attempt not only to give a thorough account of the career of one of the first and most unusual stars of silent cinema but also to approach Hayakawa from the perspective of his identity as an ethnic Japanese gaining worldwide stardom. That Daisuke Miyao is able to interrogate not only Japanese sources but the Japanese-language newspapers in the United States makes this perhaps the most thorough—and complex—treatment of the ethnicity of a movie star ever offered by a film historian. And Miyao’s placing of Hayakawa’s stardom within the context of the political and cultural relations between the United States and Japan is nothing less than masterful.”—Tom Gunning, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Films of Fritz Lang: Allegories of Vision and Modernity\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eSessue Hayakawa: Silent Cinema and Transnational Stardom\u003c\/i\u003e brings superb research and historical rigor to Hayakawa, an underrated Japanese silent film star, and to transnational film spectatorship during the early years of Hollywood. The book and its bibliography and inspirational for furthering the critical studies on other lesser-known Japanese cosmopolitan figures in early Hollywood. . . .Miyao’s book makes an unparalleled contribution and is an exemplary model for bridging the fields of cinema studies, Asian American studies, and Japanese studies.” -- Sachiko Mizuno * Journal of Asian Studies *\u003cbr\u003e“This book is a welcome addition to the literature on Orientalism, romance and the ‘Yellow Peril’ in Hollywood cinema, which has hitherto given scant attention to Hayakawa and his significant role in the silent cinema. The author’s bilingualism, assiduous research and wide-ranging scholarship have enabled a refreshingly comprehensive account and informed analysis of the reception of the star and his films in both Japan and America.” -- Freda Freiberg * Asian Studies Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustration ix\u003cbr\u003e List of Abbreviations xi\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments xiii\u003cbr\u003e Introduction 1\u003cbr\u003e PART ONE: Emperor, Buddhist, Spy, or Indian: The Pre-Star Period of Sessue Hayakawa (1914-15) \u003cbr\u003e 1. A Star Is Born: The Transnational Success of \u003ci\u003eThe Cheat\u003c\/i\u003e and Its Race and Gender Politics 21\u003cbr\u003e 2. Screen Debut: \u003ci\u003eO Mimi San\u003c\/i\u003e, or \u003ci\u003eThe Mikado\u003c\/i\u003e in Picturesque Japan 50\u003cbr\u003e 3. Christianity versus Buddhism: The Melodramatic Imagination in \u003ci\u003eThe Wrath of the Gods\u003c\/i\u003e 57\u003cbr\u003e 4. Doubleness: American Images of Japanese Spies in \u003ci\u003eThe Typhoon\u003c\/i\u003e 66\u003cbr\u003e 5. The Noble Savage and the Vanishing Race: Japanese Actors in “Indian Films” 76\u003cbr\u003e PART TWO: Villain, Friend, or Lover: Sessue Hayakawa’s Stardom at Lasky-Paramount (1916-18) \u003cbr\u003e 6. The Making of an Americanized Japanese Gentleman: \u003ci\u003eThe Honorable Friend \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eHashimura Togo\u003c\/i\u003e 87\u003cbr\u003e 7. More Americanized than the Mexican: The Melodrama of Self-Sacrifice and the Genteel Tradition in \u003ci\u003eForbidden Paths\u003c\/i\u003e 106\u003cbr\u003e 8. Sympathetic Villains and Victim-Heroes: \u003ci\u003eThe Soul of Kura San \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Call of the East \u003c\/i\u003e 117\u003cbr\u003e 9. Self-Sacrifice in the First World War: \u003ci\u003eThe Secret Game\u003c\/i\u003e 127\u003cbr\u003e 10. The Cosmopolitan Way of Life: The Americanization of the Sessue Hayakawa in Magazines 136\u003cbr\u003e PART THREE: “Triple Consciousness”: Sessue Hayakawa’s Stardom at Haworth Pictures Corporation (1918-22) \u003cbr\u003e 11. Balancing Japaneseness and Americanization: Authenticity and Patriotism in \u003ci\u003eHis Birthright \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eBanzai \u003c\/i\u003e 153\u003cbr\u003e 12. Return of the Americanized Orientals: Robertson-Cole’s Expansion and Standardization of Sessue Hayakaway’s Star Vehicles 168\u003cbr\u003e 13. The Mask: Sessue Hayakawa’s Redefinition of Silent Film Acting 195\u003cbr\u003e 14. The Star Falls: Postwar Nativism and the Decline of Sessue Hayakawa’s Stardom 214\u003cbr\u003e PART FOUR: Stardom and Japanese Modernity: Sessue Hayakawa in Japan \u003cbr\u003e 15. Americanization and Nationalism: The Japanese Reception of Sessue Hayakawa 235\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue 261\u003cbr\u003e Notes 283\u003cbr\u003e Filmography 333\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography 337\u003cbr\u003e Index 365","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406045782359,"sku":"9780822339588","price":85.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822339588.jpg?v=1730494353","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/sessue-hayakawa-9780822339588","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}