The Appearance of Cinema in San Francisco's Chinese Neighborhood
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Köp båda 2 för 2308 kr"Chinatown Film Culture is an impressive and exhaustively researched history of early film exhibition practices and filmgoing culture in San Francisco's Chinatown. It is a remarkable contribution to film history!" -- Philippa Gates * author of Criminalization/Assimilation: Chinese/Americans and Chinatowns in Classical Hollywood Film * "Original and compelling, Chinatown Film Culture fills a significant gap in cinema history. Drawing on fascinating and highly illustrative primary sources, Kim K. Fahlstedt explores the place of Asian American communities in the emergence of cinematic modernity in the United States." -- Zhang Zhen * editor of The Urban Generation: Chinese Cinema and Society at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century *
KIM K. FAHLSTEDT is a postdoctoral scholar at Stockholm University's Media Studies Department and a research affiliate for the Swedish Institute for North American Studies at Uppsala University.
Contents Preface Introduction Part I: Early Film in San Francisco 1. Bold Visions and Frontier Conditions The Emergence of Film in San Francisco 2. If I Had the Power to Do So I Would Destroy Them with My Own Hands Film and Politics in Post-Quake San Francisco Part II: Chinatown Exhibition and Movie Theaters 3. The Most Cosmopolitan City in the World Chinese San Francisco at the Turn of the Twentieth Century 4. Eyes Darting Around, Spirit Dashing About Mapping Chinatown Film Culture, 1906 1915 5. The Chinesque Aesthetic -Orientalist Stereotypes in Post-Quake Film Culture Part III: Chinese American Audiences 6. Where the People Arent All American Chinatown Audiences and Spectators 7. Chinatown Modernity Revolutions and Movie Theaters 8. Trajectories and Concluding Remarks Bibliography Index