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Beschreibung
"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"--
"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"--
Über den Autor
Michael Eaton is a screenwriter and playwright based in Nottingham, UK. His screen credits include Fellow Traveller, Signs and Wonders, Shoot to Kill and Why Lockerbie?, and he is the author of Our Friends in the North in the BFI TV Classics series. In 1999 Eaton was awarded MBE for services to film in the New Year's Honours List.
Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
'Chinatown'
Afterword to the 2024 Edition
Notes
Credits
Bibliography

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2024
Genre: Importe, Kunst
Rubrik: Kunst & Musik
Thema: Theater & Film
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9781839028151
ISBN-10: 1839028157
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Eaton, Michael
Auflage: 2nd edition
Hersteller: Bloomsbury Academic
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 187 x 134 x 8 mm
Von/Mit: Michael Eaton
Erscheinungsdatum: 14.11.2024
Gewicht: 0,162 kg
Artikel-ID: 129689499

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