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

"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 comple...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fahlstedt, Kim K. (Author)
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2020]
Subjects:
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.
Chinatown (San Francisco, Calif.) > Social life and customs.
Chinese > Social life and customs.
Manners and customs.
Motion picture audiences.
Motion picture theaters.
Motion pictures > Social aspects.
California > San Francisco.
California > San Francisco > Chinatown.
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:x, 287 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Format: Book
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.