Dr. Kim Fahlstedt presents "The Swedish Peril! Warner Oland and the Birth of Film Propaganda." This talk was part of the Swenson Center's 40th Anniversary Symposium "The Migration and Beyond: New Perspectives on Swedish-American Relations." Fahlstedt's work investigates the transnational persona of Swedish American actor Warner Oland who portrayed several Chinese and Chinese-Americans, including Charlie Chan. He is currently a postdoc scholar in the Department of Cinema Studies at Stockholm University and published "Chinatown Film Culture: The Appearance of Cinema in San Francisco's Chinese Neighborhood" with Rutgers University Press in 2020.
