عنوان

Chinatown /

(Number (ISBN

0851705324

(Number (ISBN

9780851705323

Number

b745822

Title Proper

Chinatown /

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

Michael Eaton.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

London :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

British Film Institute,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

1997.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

79 pages :

Other Physical Details

illustrations ;

Dimensions

19 cm.

Series Title

BFI film classics

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (page 79).

Text of Note

"Directed in 1974 by Roman Polanski from a script by Robert Towne, Chinatown is a brilliant reworking of film noir set in a drought-stricken Los Angeles of the 1930s. Jack Nicholson, in one of his most celebrated roles, stars as a Private Eye who, despite his best intentions, can only bring disaster upon the enigmatic woman he has come to love. The reassuringly familiar conventions of the thriller are dissected to expose a chaos of political corruption and violent sexuality lurking beneath a glittering, sun-drenched surface." "Michael Eaton analyses Chinatown in the context of the figure of the detective in literature and film from Sophocles to Edgar Allan Poe and Alfred Hitchcock. In a searching detailed and entirely absorbing account of the narrative development and visual style of Chinatown, Eaton uncovers both the film's relationship to the pessimism of American cinema in the 1970s and its veritably mythical structure and power."--Jacket.

Title

Chinatown.

Polanski, Roman.

Chinatown (Motion picture)

Chinatown (Motion picture)

Chinatown (Motion picture)

Chinatown Film.

Chinatown, Film

Chinatown, film.

Motion picture plays-- History and criticism.

Chinatown (Polanski)

Motion picture plays.

Number

Edition

Class number

Book number

Class number

System Code

Eaton, Michael.

Date of Transaction

20201204060349.0

Electronic name

[Book]

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