<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>Colleagues,</span></div><div><span></span> </div><div><span>Typo?</span></div><div><span></span> </div><div><span><font face="Calibri">"particularly <i>benshi</i> narrators Onoe Matsunosuke..."</font></span></div><div><span></span> </div><div><span>A provincial Kabuki actor before he became a star, but not a benshi...</span></div><div><span></span> </div><div><span>Cheers,</span></div><div><span>SAT</span></div><div></div><div> </div><div>Sybil Thornton, MA, PhD (Cantab)
<br>Associate Professor, Premodern Japanese History
<br>School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies
<br>Arizona State University
<br>Tempe, AZ 85287-4302
<br>Tel: 480-965-5778
<br>Fax: 480-965-0310</div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <br> <br> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> On Tuesday, October 22, 2013 8:39 AM, "Thomas LaMarre, Prof." <thomas.lamarre@mcgill.ca> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><div id="yiv0099148773">
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<font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Here’s a book that I think many of us have waiting to see in print!<br>
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Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series 79<br>
</b></span><b><font size="7"><span style="font-size: 36pt;">Making Personas<br>
</span></font><font size="5"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Transnational Film Stardom in Modern Japan<br>
Hideaki Fujiki <br>
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The film star is not simply an actor but a historical phenomenon that derives from the production of an actor’s attractiveness, the circulation of his or her name and likeness, and the support of media consumers. This book analyzes the establishment and transformation
of the transnational film star system and the formations of historically important film stars—Japanese and non-Japanese—and casts new light on Japanese modernity as it unfolded between the 1910s and 1930s.<br>
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<b>Hideaki Fujiki</b> illustrates how film stardom and the star system emerged and evolved, touching on such facets as the production, representation, circulation, and reception of performers’ images in films and other media. Examining several individual performers—particularly
<i>benshi</i> narrators Onoe Matsunosuke, Tachibana Teijir?, Kurishima Sumiko, Clara Bow, and Natsukawa Shizue—as well as certain aspects of different star systems that bolstered individual stardom, this study foregrounds the associations of contradictory,
multivalent social factors that constituted modernity in Japan, such as industrialization, capitalism, colonialism, nationalism, and consumerism. Through its nuanced treatment of the production and consumption of film stars, this book shows that modernity
is not a simple concept, but an intricate, contested, and paradoxical nexus of diverse social elements emerging in their historical contexts.<br>
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