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To be an actress : labor and performance in Anna May Wong's cross-media world / Yiman Wang
Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Series: Feminist media histories ; 7Publisher: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2024]Copyright date: ©2024Description: 1 Online-RessourceISBN:- 9780520975804
- 9780520346321
- 791.4302/8089951073 23/eng/20231031
- PN2287.W56
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Summary: "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"--PPN: PPN: 1916211070Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-94-OAB
Putting on a show : Anna May Wong's "oriental" (dis)play on the screen -- Putting on another show : spotlighting Anna May Wong in theater -- Shifting the show : labor in the margins -- The show must go on-in episodes (now you see her, now you don't) -- Encore the performer-worker : meeting Anna May Wong's "greetings" -- Refrain. the second beginning in the Wong time (intersti-racial comic -- Melancholia.)
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