Transpacific Convergences: Race, Migration, and Japanese American Film Culture Before World War II

Author/Contributor(s):	Khor, Denise
Publisher:	University of North Carolina Press
Date:	07/19/2022
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

"Despite the rise of the Hollywood system and hostility to Asian migrant communities in the early twentieth-century United States, Japanese Americans created a thriving cinema culture that produced films and established theaters and exhibition companies to facilitate their circulation between Japan and the United States. Drawing from a fascinating multilingual archive including the films themselves, movie industry trade press, Japanese American newspapers, oral histories, and more, this book reveals the experiences of Japanese Americans at the cinema and traces an alternative network of film production, exhibition, and spectatorship"--