Daisuke Miyao presents Sessue Hayakawa films at the PFA, 9-10 February + Border Crossings: Rethinking Silent Cinema

[Daisuke Miyao]

Thank you very much for the publicity, Jonathan.  I really appreciate it.  I hope I can meet some of the KineJapan members from the Bay Area.

Best,
Daisuke 

On Tue, 5 Feb 2008 03:43:04 -0800, "Jonathan M. Hall" <jmhall at uci.edu> wrote:
> Daisuke Miyao will present two films at the PFA this weekend.
> 
> On Saturday, 9 February, 2008 6:30-8:00 pm: The Cheat (1915)
> On Sunday, 10 February, 2008 2-5 pm: Forbidden Paths (1917) and The  
> Devil's Claim (1920)
> http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu
> 
> Readings on Cinema: Daisuke Miyao on Sessue Hayakawa
> 
> Sessue Hayakawa (1886?1973) has long been an elusive figure in the  
> history of silent film, despite being as renowned in his day as  
> Charlie Chaplin and Douglas Fairbanks. Following his phenomenal  
> success in Cecil B. DeMille?s The Cheat (1915), the Jesse L. Lasky  
> Company sought to shape Hayakawa?s image by emphasizing the  
> actor?s ?Japanese? traits while portraying him as safely  
> assimilated into U.S. culture. Hayakawa himself was dissatisfied with  
> his stereotyped roles, and established his own production company,  
> Haworth Pictures, in 1918. Not only a Hollywood phenomenon, Hayakawa  
> won popularity and praise abroad, from filmmakers including Sergei  
> Eisenstein and from French intellectuals, who responded to his acting  
> with a new theory of photogenie. Addressing the complex cultural  
> contexts of Hayakawa?s career, Daisuke Miyao, assistant professor of  
> Japanese film at the University of Oregon and the author of Sessue  
> Hayakawa: Silent Cinema and Transnational Stardom, will introduce  
> screenings of three key works, two of which have not been shown  
> previously at PFA.
> 
> Saturday, February 9, 2008
> 6:30 p.m.?The Cheat
> Introduced by Daisuke Miyao. Judith Rosenberg on Piano. Cecil B.  
> DeMille?s sensational drama established Hayakawa as an international  
> star, a figure of sexual menace and fascination.
> 
> Sunday, February 10, 2008
> 2:00 p.m.?Forbidden Paths
> Lecture and Booksigning by Daisuke Miyao. Judith Rosenberg on Piano.  
> Hayakawa struggles with the contradictions of love and loyalty in  
> this off-kilter male melodrama. With The Devil?s Claim, featuring  
> Hayakawa as a novelist of Indian extraction caught up in a tale of  
> devil worship.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> A related conference, Border Crossings: Rethinking Silent Cinema,  
> with Daisuke, Michael Baskett, and many others happens the same weekend.
> http://filmstudies.berkeley.edu/bordercrossings/
> 
> 
> 
> A conference on silent cinema as a traveling technology that re- 
> envisions race, gender, nation, and empire. A dialogue between the  
> early film cultures of Europe, the Middle East, Asia and the Americas
> 
> In conjunction with a series on Japanese-American silent film actor  
> Sessue Hayakawa at the Pacific Film Archive.
> 
> Keynote by Jennifer Bean (University of Washington). Other  
> participants include Lauren Rabinovitz (University of Iowa), Shelley  
> Stamp (UCSC), Priya Jaikumar (USC) and Michael Baskett (University of  
> Kansas).
> 
> Border Crossings Schedule
> 
> All events take place in the Nestrick Room, 142 Dwinelle Hall, except  
> for the film screenings, which are at the Pacific Film Archive.
> Pre-conference event:
> Friday, February 8, 2008
> 5:00 - 6:30 pm
> The Berkeley Film Seminar presents "Rethinking American Silent  
> Cinema," Scott Simmon (University of California, Davis)
> 
> Saturday, February 9, 2008
> 8:15 am - 9:00 am
> Breakfast (provided)
> 9:00 am - 9:15 am
> Opening remarks
> 9:15 am - 11:00 am
> Borders in Wartime
> Priya Jaikumar (USC), Sheila Skaff (UT-El Paso), Paul Dobryden (UCB)
> 11:15 am - 1:00 pm
> Going Places: Colonial Modernity and the Transnational Horizon
> Lauren Rabinovitz (U Iowa), Neepa Mazumdar (U Pittsburgh), Manishita  
> Dass (U Michigan), Michael Baskett (U Kansas)
> 1:00 pm - 2:15 pm
> Lunch (provided)
> 2:15 pm - 4:00 pm
> Nitrate Dreams: Film Material and its Afterlife
> Kaveh Askari (Western Washington U.), Laura Isabel Serna (Rice), Josh  
> Yumibe (Oakland U.), Daisuke Miyao (U Oregon)
> 4:15 pm - 5:30 pm
> Keynote address: "'Movie-Land' and the Cosmopolitan Imagination,"  
> Jennifer Bean (U Washington)
> Author of The Play in the Machine: Gender, Genre, and the Cinema of  
> Modernity (forthcoming Duke UP)
> 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
> The Cheat (1915) at the Pacific Film Archive
> Introduced by Daisuke Miyao (U Oregon) and accompanied by Judith  
> Rosenberg. Admission $5.50 - $9.50.
> 
> Sunday, February 10, 2008
> 8:15 am - 9:00 am
> Breakfast (provided)
> 9:00 am - 10:45 am
> Letters of Transit: Film as Racial and Cultural Envoy
> Allyson Nadia Field (Harvard), Arne Lunde (UCLA), Yiman Wang (UCSC)
> 11:00 am - 12:45 pm
> Sex and Gender Crossings
> Shelley Stamp (UCSC), Laura Horak (UCB), Anupama Kapse (UCB), Leigh  
> Goldstein (UT-Austin)
> 12:45 pm - 1:00 pm
> Closing remarks
> 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
> Forbidden Paths (1917) & The Devil's Claim (1920) at the Pacific Film  
> Archive
> Introduced by Daisuke Miyao (U Oregon) and accompanied by Judith  
> Rosenberg. Admission $5.50 - $9.50
> 
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