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Description of  Transpacific Convergences: Race, Migration, and Japanese American Film Culture Before World War II (Studies in United States Culture)

i Despite the & /i i 8239 rise of the Hollywood & /i i 8239 system & /i i 8239 and hostility to Asian migrant communities in the early twentieth-century United States, Japanese Americans & /i i 8239 created a & /i i 8239 thriving cinema culture that & /i i 8239 produced films and established theaters and exhibition companies to facilitate their & /i i 8239 circulation & /i i 8239 between & /i i 8239 Japan and the United States. & /i i 8239 Drawing from a fascinating multilingual archive including the films themselves, movie industry trade press, Japanese American newspapers, oral histories, and more, this book reveals & /i i 8239 the experiences of Japanese Americans at the cinema and traces an alternative network of film production, exhibition, and spectatorship. In doing so,& /i i 8239 Denise Khor & /i 8239 recovers previously unknown films such as i & /i i 8239 The Oath of the Sword /i i & /i i 8239 (1914), likely one of the earliest Asian American film productions, and illuminates the global circulations that have always constituted the multifaceted history of American cinema.& /i 8239 br br i Khor & /i i 8239 opens up transnational lines of inquiry and draws & /i i 8239 comparisons & /i i 8239 between early Japanese American cinema and Black cinema to & /i i 8239 craft & /i i 8239 a broad and expansive history of & /i 8239 a transnational public sphere shaped by the circulation and exchange of people, culture, and ideas across the Pacific. br br Read more