This study analyzes "Chinatown" in the context of the figure of the detective in literature and film from Sophocles to Edgar Allan Poe and Alfred Hitchcock. In the account of "Chinatown"'s narrative development Michael Eaton seeks to uncover both its relationship to the pessimism of American cinema in the 1970s and its veritably mythical structure.
- ISBN13 9780851705323
- Publish Date 1 November 1997
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 27 January 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Imprint BFI Publishing
- Edition 1997 ed.
- Format Paperback
- Pages 80
- Language English