Chinatown:
A Selective Bibliography of Materials in the UC Berkeley Library




Babener, Liahna K.
"Chinatown, City of Blight." In: Los Angeles in Fiction: A Collection of Essays: From James M. Cain to Walter Mosley / edited by David Fine. pp: 273-85. Rev. ed. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, c1995.
--UCB Main PS374.L57 L6 1995
--UCB Moffitt PS374.L57 L6 1995

Belton, John.
"Language, Oedipus, and Chinatown." MLN, vol. 106 no. 5. 1991 Dec. pp: 933-50. UCB Users Only

Biskind, Peter.
"The Low Road to Chinatown." Premiere: The Movie Magazine, vol. 7 no. 10. 1994 June. pp: 68-78.

Bottiggi, William D.
"The Importance of 'C - ing' in Earnest: A Comparison of The Maltese Falcon and Chinatown." Armchair Detective, New York, NY. ISSUE: vol. 14 no. 1. Winter 1981. pp: 86-87.

Cawelti, John G.
"Chinatown and Generic Transformation in Recent American Films." In: Film Genre Reader II / edited by Barry Keith Grant. pp: 227-45. 1st ed. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1995.
--UCB Main PN1995 .F45792 1995 pp: 227-45.

Cooper, S.
"Sex/Knowledge/Power in the Detective Genre." Film Quarterly, XLII/3, Spring 89; p.23-31.
Four detective films - "The Maltese Falcon", "The Big Heat", "Chinatown", "Angel Heart" - used to discuss characteristics of male-female relationships within the genre, notably the woman's withholding of knowledge sought by the man.

Deutsche, Rosalyn.
"Chinatown, Part Four? What Jake Forgets about Downtown." Assemblage: A Critical Journal of Architecture and Design Culture, vol. 20. 1993 Apr. pp: 32-33.

Fawell, John.
"Cruel Fates: Parallels between Roman Polanski's Chinatown and Sophocles's Oedipus Rex." Armchair Detective, vol. 29 no. 2. 1996 Spring. pp: 178-85.

Galperin, William.
"'Bad for the Glass': Representation and Filmic Deconstruction in Chinatown and Chan Is Missing." MLN, vol. 102 no. 5. 1987 Dec. pp: 1151-1170. UCB Users Only

Horowitz, M.
Fault lines." Film Comment Vol XXVI nr 6 (Nov-Dec 1990); p 52-55,57-58
Compares scriptwriter Robert Towne's "Chinatown" to his other work

Jameson, Richard T.
"Film noir: today; Son of noir." Film Comment Vol X nr 6 (Nov-Dec 1974); p 30-33
Recent trends in 'film noir', emphasizing 'Gumshoe', 'The long goodbye' and 'Chinatown'.

Kaplan, F.
"Chinatown." Cineaste Vol VI nr 3 (1974); p 38-39

Kavanagh, J.
"Chinatown: other places other times." Jump Cut nr 3 (Sept-Oct 1974); p 1,8

Linderman, D.
"Oedipus in Chinatown." Enclitic, 5/6 (1981/82) pp: 190-203
"Chinatown" is analysed as an Oedipal text in an attempt to define what is loosely called the classical text.

Lynch, Karen.
"Orientation via Orientalism: Chinatown in Detective Narratives." Popular Culture Review. 11(1):13-29. 2000 Feb.

Lyons, Donald
"Flaws in the iris." Film Comment Vol XXIX nr 4 (July-Aug 1993); p 44-45,47-49,51-53
Claims that "Chinatown" and "The long goodbye" are the lone masterworks of 'neo-noir'.
Man, Glenn.
"Marginality and Centrality: The Myth of Asia in 1970s Hollywood. East-West Film Journal, vol. 8 no. 1. 1994 Jan. pp: 52-67.

MacDonald, Scott
"The City as Motion Picture: Notes on Some California City Films." Wide Angle 19.4 (1997) 109-130

Maxfield, James.
"'The Injustice of It All': Polanski's Revision of the Private Eye Genre in Chinatown." In: The detective in American fiction, film, and television
Edited by Jerome H. Delamater and Ruth Prigozy. pp: 93-102. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1998. Series title: Contributions to the study of popular culture no. 63.
--UCB Main PS374.D4 D48 1998

McGinnis, Wayne D.
""Chinatown": Roman Polanski's Contemporary Oedipus Story." Literature/Film Quarterly 3:3 (1975:Summer) 249

McGowman, John.
"Oedipus at the Movies." Southern Humanities Review, vol. 20 no. 1. 1986 Winter. pp: 1-11.

Oliver, Bill
""The Long Goodbye" and "Chinatown": Debunking the Private Eye Tradition." Literature/Film Quarterly 3:3 (1975:Summer) 240

Palmer, R. Barton
""Chinatown" and the Detective Story." Literature/Film Quarterly 5:2 (1977:Spring) 112

Shepard, Jim
"Jolting noir with a shot of nihilism: it was 25 years ago that 'Chinatown,' to renovate the genre, gave it a new ferocity." The New York Times Feb 7, 1999 s2 pAR24(L) col 1 (19 col in)

Shetley, Vernon.
"Incest and Capital in Chinatown." MLN. 114(5):1092-1109. 1999 Dec.

Sobchack, Thomas
"Genre Film: A Classical Experience." Literature/Film Quarterly 3:3 (1975:Summer) 196

Sperber, Murray
"'Do as little as possible'; Polanski's message and manipulation." Jump Cut nr 3 (Sept-Oct 1974); p 9-10

Stewart, B.
"'The Long Goodbye' from 'Chinatown'". Film Quarterly, 28:2 (1974/75) pp: 25-32.
A comparison of 'The long goodbye' and 'Chinatown' in terms of the detective genre as a whole.

Telotte, J. P.
"The Detective As Dreamer: The Case of The Lady in the Lake." Journal of Popular Film and Television, vol. 12 no. 1. 1984 Spring. pp: 4-15.

Towne, Robert
"Chinatown." Sight and Sound ns9 no10 Oct 1999 supp. p. 1-146
Robert Towne's screenplay for Chinatown, directed by Roman Polanski, is provided



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