| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.1

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Amerika Eiga ni arawareta Nihon Imeiji no Henson (The transition of images of "Japan" in American films). By Sachiko Masuda. (Osaka: Osaka University Press, 2004. 224 pp. Paper, ¥2,400, ISBN 4-87259-177-1.) In Japanese.
Sachiko Masuda, associate professor in the Department of Industrial Sociology at Ritsumeikan University, surveys how cinematic depictions of the Japanese have changed from the silent-film period to the present, analyzing more than fifty American films, mostly Hollywood productions, but some independent films and wartime documentaries. Masuda traces historically how international and domestic political, economic, social, and cultural situations have affected the way Japanese and Asians are portrayed on the screen.	1
During the silent period, when westerners were fascinated with exotic "Japonism" and Japan grew as a modern military state in the international arena, the tragic image of Madame Butterfly was shaped—an Asian woman who served a Caucasian man, was abandoned by him, and then sacrificed herself. Japanese men, embodied in the roles played by the popular Hollywood star, Sessue Hayakawa, acquired contrasting images of barbarity and sophistication, explosiveness and quiet.	. . .

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