Chinatown

Name: Chinatown
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ISBN: 9780851705323

ISBN-10: 0851705324

ISBN-13: 9780851705323

Edition: 1997

Authors: Michael Eaton

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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. Michael Eaton analyzes Chinatown in the context of the figure of the detective in literature and film from Sophocles to Edgar Allen 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…

Book details

List price: $15.95
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: BFI Publishing
Publication date: 12/27/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 80
Size: 5.37" wide x 7.55" long x 0.23" tall
Weight: 0.286
Language: English