Chinatown

Chinatown is an ethnic enclave which defined as an area in a city with a high concentration of Chinese people. In fact, Chinatown has been home to many immigrant families, and people who reside in Chinatown rely on networks of relatives and friends and on affordable goods, food as well as housing within the neighborhood. New York City 's Chinatown is considered the largest Chinatown in the United States (Waxman, n.d.), and it is located on the lower east side of Manhattan. According to National Park Service website, “Chinatown Historic District in New York was listed in the National Register of Historic Places on February 12, 2010, due to its national significance stemming from its association with United States immigration from 1800-1965.”…

It is well known today that Jack Nicholson is one of the greatest of his kind. But Nicholson can credit Chinatown as his start as A-list regular. Even being said that Nicholson “is one of the most interesting actors now working…” (Ebert, par.6). And that “Before Chinatown, Nicholson was known, but not a bona fide star. This film, his first lead role, changed the direction of his career.”(Berardinelli, par.7). Nicholson is an actor who becomes unrecognizable as himself and is solitary remembered…

Japanese to enter the United States, many of the immigrants chose to stay in Portland (Sakamoto). Portland’s Japantown was characterized by flourishing business, schools, and a strong sense of community. Furthermore, although Japantown was originally predominantly male community similar to Portland’s Chinatown, the Japanese started families, which gave them an advantage over other minority groups and helped ease their assimilation into American society. A strong sense of community…

On the surface, Portland’s Chinatown looked like any other American city with its “turn-of-the-century low-rise, brick warehouse and commercial structures, with culture expressed more modestly as ornament” (Wong, 223). However, despite their attempts to fit in, the Chinese were still viewed as an outsider community, a group of people that “could not be assimilated” (Wong, 19) into American culture. Although racism was present in Portland, Portland’s Chinese community did not see as much…

In her book At America 's Gates: Chinese Immigration during the Exclusion Era, 1882-1943, Erika Lee convincingly argues that the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act is the start of the United States of America becoming a “gatekeeping” nation, no longer imagining itself as a nation open to all immigrants but instead a nation that carefully monitors who should be allowed to enter America and who should not. Yet Chinese Exclusion did more than simply display American desire to limit the immigration of a…

The painting depicts a dishevelled women, dressed in black, standing in front of a barren tenement building. The color black often symbolizes death, evil and fear of the unknown, as it is a unique mix of all colors. Unlike most of Davis’s other work, Chinatown lacks vibrant colors, indicating that this area of New York City has a shortage of resources and opportunities for its residents. Various faded signs cluster together by the stone surface near the door. One barely legible sign in the…

For this assignment, I have reached Chinatown to assess its form structure and degree of gentrification. The day and time I visited was October 12th, 2015 at 1:00 PM. The main intersection of this dynamic community is located on Dundas Street West and Spadina Avenue. Toronto’s best-known ethnic neighbourhood is Chinatown. There are actually seven Chinatowns in greater Toronto, but the most exciting and vibrant one is by University, Spadina, Queen and College. During the day, fresh and exotic…

In a collaboration between Céline and Stella McCartney, Chinatown Plaid was released as part of a 2013 Fall collection. The tailored coats of bright plaid bares resemblance to large, plastic woven tote bags, having appropriated not only its red, white, and blue print but also its rigid form and frayed trimming. However, in contrast to the garments’ name, the visibility of these bags extends beyond the working class immigrants in Chinatown and other districts characterised by large migrant worker…

Within the film Chinatown, symbols place the largest role in the aesthetics of the film. One the most prominent symbols is a broken, damaged, or imperfect lens. Gittes uses two watches to help aid him when he was tailing Mr. Mulwray. The idea behind it was that Mulwray would run it over and stop the time so Mulwray can determine when he left. The broken lens symbol was also shown when Gittes was investigating the farm involved in the government scandal, where one lens in sunglasses was broken.…

The film "Chinatown" presents Los Angeles’s crisis of stifling drought, despite the presence of the river, but the lack of dams and poor drainage tampering in the city. In the film we sink into the thirties of Los Angeles glooms as if we are at that moment. So the director was able to take us to see that moment through (atmospheres, decor, clothes, make-up and even music) in order to make us live this melancholy atmosphere of crime. The film story begins after a visit from a lady for the office…