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Criticism (2007) - The "Chinatown" Syndrome

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Chinatown is deeply critical of that mode of perception, which it marks - by focusing on Jake's perceptions of women and minorities, and by situating Jake so thoroughly in the tradition of private-eye fiction and film, a tradition centered thematically around a white male protagonist's conceptions of women and minorities, most frequently Asians - as Western, white, and male.

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