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Chinatown: BFI Film Classics

01-Jun-04
96 pages
Published/distributed by BFI Publishing
ISBN/EAN: 9780851705323
Paperback
Price: £9.99
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Chinatown: BFI Film Classics 
Eaton, Michael
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 analyses 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 cinema in the 1970s and its veritably mythical structure and power.
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