TY - BOOK ID - 86105803 TI - Chinatown Film Culture : The Appearance of Cinema in San Francisco’s Chinese Neighborhood PY - 2020 SN - 197880444X 1978804415 PB - New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Chinese in motion pictures. KW - Chinese KW - Motion picture audiences KW - Motion picture theaters KW - Motion pictures KW - PERFORMING ARTS / General. KW - Cinema KW - Feature films KW - Films KW - Movies KW - Moving-pictures KW - Audio-visual materials KW - Mass media KW - Performing arts KW - Cinemas KW - Movie theaters KW - Moving-picture theaters KW - Theaters, Motion picture KW - Theaters KW - Film audiences KW - Filmgoers KW - Moviegoers KW - Moving-picture audiences KW - Ethnology KW - Social life and customs. KW - History. KW - Social aspects KW - History and criticism KW - Audiences KW - Chinatown, Film, Culture, Chinese, San Francisco, Chinese Americans, early twentieth century, Kim K. Fahlstedt, History, Hollywood, Entertainment, historical, emergence, Revolutions, Movie, Theaters, Chinatown Audiences, Chinatown Spectators, Post-Quake, Media Studies, United States, American Studies, Communications, Ethnic Studies, Asian American Studies, Social Science, Performing, Arts, Video, Crititism. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:86105803 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. ER -