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

• Autore: Wang Yiman
• Pubblicazione: Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , 2024; ©2024
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (286 pages)
• Disciplina: 791.43028089951073
• Soggetto topico: Actresses - United States; Chinese American motion picture actors and actresses - United States; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Entertainment & Performing Arts
• Soggetto genere / forma: Biographies.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Series page -- Title -- Copyright -- Subvention -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Prelude -- 1. Putting on a Show -- 2. Putting on Another Show -- 3. Shifting the Show -- 4. The Show Must Go On-in Episodes -- 5. Encore the Performer-Worker -- Refrain -- Notes -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visitwww.luminosoa.org to learn more. 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: To Be an Actress
• ISBN: 9780520975804; 0520975804
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910856994503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Feminist Media Histories Series