Chinatown film culture : the appearance of cinema in San Francisco's Chinese neighborhood /
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| Author / Creator: | Fahlstedt, Kim K., author. |
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| Imprint: | New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2020] |
| Description: | 1 online resource (x, 287 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
| Language: | English |
| Subject: | Motion picture audiences -- California -- San Francisco -- History. Chinese -- California -- San Francisco -- Social life and customs. Chinese in motion pictures. Motion picture theaters -- California -- San Francisco -- History. Motion pictures -- Social aspects -- California -- San Francisco. Chinese in motion pictures. Chinese -- Social life and customs. Manners and customs. Motion picture audiences. Motion picture theaters. Motion pictures -- Social aspects. Chinatown (San Francisco, Calif.) -- Social life and customs. California -- San Francisco. California -- San Francisco -- Chinatown. |
| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12343475 |
Table of Contents:
- 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.
