Event

Penn Museum's season of Second Sunday Culture Films presents: 

Vanishing Chinatown (USA) : Dir: Gayle Yamada (2020) TRT 30:00 The Chan family teaches themselves photography after the turn of the century and sets up a photo studio in Chinatown San Francisco, chiefly for the Chinese American community. The photos that they took speak to the hybridity of Chinese American life, including collages and double exposures to bring together families separated by the Chinese Exclusion Act, as well as depictions of Chinese Opera casts in Wild West and Prohibition period gangster costumes. Speaker: filmmaker Gayle Yamada  

Sponsors: Penn Asian American Studies, Phila Asian American Film and Filmmakers, Penn Cinema Studies, The Wolf Humanities Center 

For registration visit:

https://www.penn.museum/calendar/520/second-sunday-culture-film-vanishing-chinatown