To Be an Actress - Yiman Wang

To Be an Actress

Labor and Performance in Anna May Wong's Cross-Media World

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Buch | Softcover
284 Seiten
2024
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-34632-1 (ISBN)
37,40 inkl. MwSt
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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.

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.

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Feminist Media Histories ; 7
Zusatzinfo 34 figures, 23 videos
Verlagsort Berkerley
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 454 g
Themenwelt Literatur Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Kunst / Musik / Theater Film / TV
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 0-520-34632-7 / 0520346327
ISBN-13 978-0-520-34632-1 / 9780520346321
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