I recommend it to people interested in the topic s , and it is an interesting and informative read which starts off quite well. It tapers away a little, but it's still worth the time.
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Apr 23, Bruce rated it liked it. Although we judge history through a lens of modern day values, there's no denying that America and the world were racist places back during the s. This was a time of D. While never a huge star, he was definitely a Although we judge history through a lens of modern day values, there's no denying that America and the world were racist places back during the s. While never a huge star, he was definitely an important one for a few years at Paramount.
He then set up his own production company and produced quite a few starring films for himself. Hayakawa had to walk a fine line in his films. There were miscegenation laws in most states, which said that different races could not intermarry. He usually couldn't even touch his female co-stars, much less kiss them or end up with them at the end of the movie.
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He tried to keep from being typecast by portraying Chinese, Asian Indian, Burmese, Egyptian and other ethnic characters. Unfortunately, after World War I, California became very anti-Japanese and the box office returns of his films plummeted. He traveled to Europe for a few years, and appeared in films there. In the s, he lived back in Japan. Miyao has definitely done his research. Besides reconstructing the storylines of many lost films from the s, he has mined Japanese film magazines for reviews of Hayakawa's films. 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. This is a good but not great book. I can recommend it to anyone who is seriously interested in silent film history, as well as anyone interested in American history and how one Japanese actor was able to make it as a movie star for a few years during the silent era.
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We can notify you when this item is back in stock. Home Contact Us Help Free delivery worldwide. Silent Cinema and Transnational Stardom. 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.
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.
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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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