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Roger Ebert Lecture

Event Type
Film Screening
Sponsor
College of Media, Ebert Center for Film Studies
Location
Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory, Urbana
Date
Oct 24, 2025   2:00 pm  
Originating Calendar
Ebert Center for Film Studies Events, College of Media

Join us for this Fall’s Roger Ebert Lecture, given by Yiman Wang, professor of film and digital media at UC Santa Cruz. Wang’s lecture will present from her recent book To Be an Actress, on early Hollywood Chinese-American performer Anna May Wong and her work in cinema, theater, radio, and American television. Viewing Wong as a performer and worker, not just a star, Wang invites a reconsideration of racialized, gendered, and migratory labor as the bedrock of the entertainment industries. 

This event is free and open to the public and presented by the Roger Ebert Center for Film Studies and co-sponsored by the Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies.

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