To Be an Actress: Labor and Performance in Anna May Wong’s Cross-Media World (Feminist Media Histories Book 7) by Yiman Wang ISBN 9780520346321, 9780520975804, 0520346327, 0520975804 instant download

To Be an Actress: Labor and Performance in Anna May Wong’s Cross-Media World (Feminist Media Histories Book 7) by Yiman Wang ISBN 9780520346321, 9780520975804, 0520346327, 0520975804 instant download

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. 
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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.
FEMINIST MEDIA HISTORIES

 Shelley Stamp, Series Editor

 1. Their Own Best Creations: Women Writers in Postwar Television, by Annie Berke

 2. Violated Frames: Armando Bó and Isabel Sarli’s Sexploits, by Victoria Ruetalo

 3. Recollecting Lotte Eisner: Cinema, Exile, and the Archive, by Naomi DeCelles

 4. A Queer Way of Feeling: Girl Fans and Personal Archives in Early Hollywood,

by Diana W. Anselmo

 5. Incomplete: The Feminist Possibilities of the Unfinished Film, edited by Alix Beeston

and Stefan Solomon

 6. Producing Feminism: Television Work in the Age of Women’s Liberation, by Jennifer S. Clark

 7. To Be an Actress: Labor and Performance in Anna May Wong’s Cross-Media World,

by Yiman Wan