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Readings for Wed March 18

Please read the two Daisuke Miyao chapters on Sessue Hayakawa in the reading packet BEFORE class.

“A Star is Born: The Transnational Success of the Cheat and Its Race and Gender Politics,” and “Americanization and Nationalism: The Japanese Reception of Sessue Hayakawa.”

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One Response to “Readings for Wed March 18”

  1. Kent Dela Pena Says:
    March 26th, 2009 at 2:38 pm

    With some similarities between The Cheat and Birth of a Nation, one difference really stood out for me. In The Cheat, the Japanese antagonist was portrayed by a Japanese actor. In Birth of a Nation, the role of the black antagonist was done by a white actor in blackface.

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