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. Kim K. 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 into the movie theater.
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. Kim K. 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 into the movie theater.
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.
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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 Aren't All American" - Chinatown Audiences and Spectators 7. Chinatown Modernity - Revolutions and Movie Theaters 8. Trajectories and Concluding Remarks Bibliography Index
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 Aren't All American" - Chinatown Audiences and Spectators 7. Chinatown Modernity - Revolutions and Movie Theaters 8. Trajectories and Concluding Remarks Bibliography Index
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