To Be an Actress: Labor and Performance in Anna May Wong's Cross-Media World - Couverture souple

Wang, Yiman

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0520346327 ISBN 13 : 9780520346321

Editeur : University of California Press, 2024

Synopsis

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Between 1919 and 1961, pioneering Chinese American actress Anna May Wong established an enduring legacy that encompassed cinema, theater, radio, and American television. Born in Los Angeles, yet with her US citizenship scrutinized due to the Chinese Exclusion Act, Wong--a defiant misfit--innovated nuanced performances to subvert the racism and sexism that beset her life and career. In this critical study of Wong's cross-media and transnational career, Yiman Wang marshals extraordinary archival research and a multifocal approach to illuminate a lifelong labor of performance. Viewing Wong as a performer and worker, not just a star, To Be an Actress adopts a feminist decolonial perspective to speculatively meet her as an interlocutor while inviting a reconsideration of racialized, gendered, and migratory labor as the bedrock of the entertainment industries.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Yiman Wang is Professor of Film & Digital Media at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and author of Remaking Chinese Cinema: Through the Prism of Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Hollywood.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of California Press
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0520346327
• ISBN 13: 9780520346321
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 284
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible