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"Michael Eaton's compelling study of Roman Polanski's 1974 neo-noir situates Chinatown in relation to a history of fictional detectives, from Sophocles to Edgar Allen Poe and Alfred Hitchcock. In an absorbing account of the film's narrative development and visual style, he traces Chinatown's relationship to the pessimism of American cinema (and, by extension, in wider American culture) in the mid-1970s, and the source of the film's narrative and visual impact. In his afterword to this new edition, Eaton considers Chinatown's 1990 sequel The Two Jakes and also the movie's changing fortunes in the years since its release"--
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Michael Eaton --- film --- filmklassiekers --- filmgeschiedenis --- Chinatown --- Polanski Roman --- detectivefilm --- 791.471 POLANSKI --- Chinatown (Motion picture)
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On the eve of the Chinese New Year in San Francisco's Chinatown, twelve-year-old Donald Duk attempts to deal with his comical name and his feelings for his cultural heritage.
American literature --- Chinese Americans --- Fiction. --- Chinatown (San Francisco, Calif.)
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God in Chinatown is a path breaking study of the largest contemporary wave of new immigrants to Chinatown. Since the 1980's, tens of thousands of mostly rural Chinese have migrated from Fuzhou, on China's southeastern coast, to New York's Chinatown. Like the Cantonese who comprised the previous wave of migrants, the Fuzhou have brought with them their religious beliefs, practices, and local deities. In recent years these immigrants have established numerous specifically Fuzhounese religious communities, ranging from Buddhist, Daoist, and Chinese popular religion to Protestant and Catholic Christians...
Chinese Americans --- Immigrants --- Religious life --- Chinatown (New York, N.Y.)
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This visually and intellectually exciting book brings the history of San Francisco's Chinatown alive by taking a close look at images of the quarter created during its first hundred years, from 1850 to 1950. Picturing Chinatown contains more than 160 photographs and paintings, some well known and many never reproduced before, to illustrate how this famous district has acted on the photographic and painterly imagination.
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Chinese American women --- Women clothing workers --- Employment --- Chinatown (New York, N.Y.)
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The final work over which he maintained creative control, this clever farce is the culmination of an extraordinary, decade-long run that produced some of the most innovative and enduring comedies of all time. Keaton plays a hapless newsreel cameraman desperate to impress both his new employer and his winsome office crush as he zigzags up and down Manhattan hustling for a scoop.
Photojournalists --- Secretaries --- Chinese Americans --- Tongs (Secret societies) --- Chinatown (New York, N.Y.)
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Chinese Americans --- History. --- Social conditions. --- Chinatown (Portland, Or.) --- Portland (Or.) --- Race relations.
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