TY  - GEN
T1  - Chinatown film culture : the appearance of cinema in San Francisco's Chinese neighborhood
A1  - Fahlstedt, Kim K
LA  - English
PP  - New Brunswick
PB  - Rutgers University Press
YR  - 2020
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_on1176360457
AB  - "Chinatown Film Culture provides the first comprehensive account of the emergence of film and moviegoing in the transpacific hub of San Francisco in the early twentieth century. Working with materials previously left in the margins of grand narratives of history, Kim K. Fahlstedt uncovers the complexity of a local entertainment culture that offered spaces where marginalized Chinese Americans experienced and participated in local iterations of modernity. At the same time, this space also fostered a powerful Orientalist aesthetic that would eventually be exported to Hollywood by San Francisco showmen such as Sid Grauman. Instead of primarily focusing on the screen-spectator relationship, Fahlstedt suggests that immigrant audiences' role in the proliferation of cinema as public entertainment in the United States saturated the whole moviegoing experience, from outside on the street to inside the movie theater. By highlighting San Francisco and Chinatown as featured participants rather than bit players, Chinatown Film Culture provides an historical account from the margins, alternative to the more dominant narratives of U.S. film history"--
OP  - 287
CN  - PN1995.9.A8 F34 2020eb
SN  - 9781978804425
SN  - 1978804423
SN  - 9781978804449
SN  - 197880444X
SN  - 9781978804401
SN  - 1978804407
SN  - 9781978804418
SN  - 1978804415
KW  - Motion picture audiences : California : San Francisco : History.
KW  - Chinese : California : San Francisco : Social life and customs.
KW  - Chinese in motion pictures.
KW  - Motion picture theaters : California : San Francisco : History.
KW  - Motion pictures : Social aspects : California : San Francisco.
KW  - Chinatown (San Francisco, Calif.) : Social life and customs.
KW  - Cinéma : Publics : Californie : San Francisco : Histoire.
KW  - Chinois : Californie : San Francisco : Mœurs et coutumes.
KW  - Chinois au cinéma.
KW  - Cinéma : Aspect social : Californie : San Francisco.
KW  - PERFORMING ARTS : General.
KW  - Chinese in motion pictures
KW  - Chinese : Social life and customs
KW  - Manners and customs
KW  - Motion picture audiences
KW  - Motion picture theaters
KW  - Motion pictures : Social aspects
KW  - California : San Francisco
KW  - California : San Francisco : Chinatown
KW  - History
ER  -