Chinatown film culture : the appearance of cinema in San Francisco's Chinese neighborhood /

"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 c...

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Autor principal: Fahlstedt, Kim K (Autor)
Formato: Licensed eBooks
Idioma:inglês
Publicado em: New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, 2020.
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Sumário:
  • Early Film in San Francisco. Bold Visions and Frontier Conditions: The Emergence of Film in San Francisco
  • "If I Had the Power to Do So I Would Destroy Them with My Own Hands": Film and Politics in Post-Quake San Francisco
  • Chinatown Exhibition and Movie Theaters
  • "The Most Cosmopolitan City in the World": Chinese San Francisco at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
  • "Eyes Darting Around, Spirit Dashing About"
  • Mapping Chinatown Film Culture, 1906-1915
  • The Chinesque Aesthetic: Orientalist Stereotypes in Post-Quake Film Culture
  • Chinese American Audiences. "Where the People Aren't All American": Chinatown Audiences and Spectators
  • Chinatown Modernity: Revolutions and Movie Theaters
  • Trajectories and Concluding Remarks.