Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I. Early Film in San Francisco
6. 1. Bold Visions and Frontier Conditions: The Emergence of Film in San Francisco 25
7. 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 44
8. Part II. Chinatown Exhibition and Movie Theaters
9. 3. “The Most Cosmopolitan City in the World”: Chinese San Francisco at the Turn of the Twentieth Century 67
10. 4. “Eyes Darting Around, Spirit Dashing About”: Mapping Chinatown Film Culture, 1906–1915 85
11. 5. The Chinesque Aesthetic: Orientalist Stereotypes in Post-quake Film Culture 119
12. Part III. Chinese American Audiences
13. 6. “Where the People Aren’t All American”: Chinatown Audiences and Spectators 145
14. 7. Chinatown Modernity: Revolutions and Movie Theaters 176
15. 8. Trajectories and Concluding Remarks 195
16. Acknowledgments 203
17. Notes 207
18. Bibliography 257
19. Index 273
20. About the Author 289