Chinatown Film Culture The Appearance of Cinema in San Francisco's Chinese Neighborhood

"Original and compelling, Chinatown Film Culture fills a significant gap in cinema history. Drawing on fascinating and highly illustrative primary sources, Kim K. Fahlstedt explores the place of Asian American communities in the emergence of cinematic modernity in the United States."

- Zhang Zhen, editor of The Urban Generation: Chinese Cinema and Society at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century
"Chinatown Film Culture is an impressive and exhaustively researched history of early film exhibition practices and filmgoing culture in San Francisco's Chinatown. It is a remarkable contribution to film history!"- Philippa Gates, author of Criminalization/Assimilation: Chinese/Americans and Chinatowns in Classical Hollywood Film