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Sessue Hayakawa: Silent Cinema and Transnational Stardom (A John Hope Franklin Center Book)

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Sessue Hayakawa: Silent Cinema and Transnational Stardom (A John Hope Franklin Center Book)

I am currently reading this book & I am past 100 pages. This book from an academic point of view is very good but I think it would bore a lot of people as it has too much detail about Japanese people & their relevance in USA during the early days of the 20th Century. Whilst it is very interesting and compares very well as to what happened in Australia where I live, it is a little too much and is associated with picture content of films that no longer exist so that the reader cannot watch these films and make up their own mind. So, I would say it is a scholarly work by an academic that limits it readership by such repetitive material. I would further make up my mind when I have finished the book. But at this point it does not have the flow or attention of other books I have read & maybe part of my archive from this period if I bought said books(I read a lot from city libraries that are otherwise not available in book shops or sections of major department stores). I do like books that flow as such that I cannot bare to put down(but, obviously have to) till I finish. I like thinking about what I read & compare what I already know of the period in film & do find a lot of errors in some books besides bad proofreading. So far I have found no literals in this well produced book in a common paper cover on acid-free paper.

I must admit that I do like to read about a subject's origins & the people and companies these people worked for. I guess you could call it the Life & Times of the subject but there is a lot repetition along the way taking up valuable space in this tome.

As I say, let me finish the book & hope to get back to this review and add something if necessary.