Film Noir 
.... The hard-boiled detective story is the classic private detective story, and it is central in Chinatown in the form of
Jake Gittes. ....
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Chinatown
.... As Cross tells a detective,
Jake Gittes, always one step behind him, "You may think you know what you're dealing with, but believe me, you don't" (Polanski 1974 ....
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The Modern Film Noir, Chinatown
.... As Cross tells a detective,
Jake Gittes, always one step behind him, "You may think you know what you're dealing with, but believe me, you don't" (Polanski 1974 ....
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Kant and Hume on Promises
.... as a reference to the Chinatown of that city so much as it is a metaphor for the disillusionment and frustration of the main character,
Jake Gittes, a man who ....
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THE BIG SLEEP Detective Stories
.... Roman Polanski's film Chinatown looks back to the 1940s and the era of the hardboiled Los Angeles private detective, seen here as
Jake Gittes. ....
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Murder Mysteries
.... Roman Polanski's film Chinatown looks back to the 1940s and the era of the hardboiled Los Angeles private detective, seen here as
Jake Gittes. ....
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American crime fiction
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Jake Gittes is the central consciousness of the film--he does not narrate the story, but he is the character whose experience is shared by the audience. ....
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Lone Star
.... Like Jack Nicholson's
Jake Gittes in Chinatown, he is repeatedly warned that his opening of a Pandora's box regarding the murder of Charley Wade may not ....
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