Question

In “The Dark Continent of Film Noir,” E. Ann Kaplan argued that a lack of children and a familiarity with, and ability to move through, one of these places after leaving a theater links Elsa Bannister to otherness. For 10 points each:
[10m] Give these places. A film named for these places sees a man slap a woman repeatedly in between the words “daughter” and “sister” and solve a mystery by finding a pair of bifocals in a saltwater pond.
ANSWER: Chinatowns [or Chinatown, Los Angeles; or Chinatown, San Francisco]
[10e] Elsa Bannister navigates Chinatown in this director’s The Lady from Shanghai. He directed Citizen Kane.
ANSWER: Orson Welles
[10h] Wayne Wang directed this chinatown-based black and white neo-noir in which two men search for the title character after an old man is stabbed at a flag waving day contested by supporters of Taiwan and the PRC.
ANSWER: Chan is Missing
<Emmett Laurie, Other Fine Arts>

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Summary

2023 Penn Bowl @ Waterloo10/28/2023Y412.50100%25%0%
2023 Penn Bowl @ FSU10/28/2023Y110.00100%0%0%
2023 Penn Bowl (Harvard)10/21/2023Y210.00100%0%0%
2023 Penn Bowl (Mainsite)10/21/2023Y611.67100%17%0%
2023 Penn Bowl (Norcal)10/28/2023Y215.00100%50%0%
2023 Penn Bowl (South Central)10/28/2023Y36.6767%0%0%
2023 Penn Bowl (UK)10/28/2023Y512.00100%20%0%
2023 Penn Bowl @ UNC10/28/2023Y310.00100%0%0%

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Library of Babel School of Continuing StudiesLa Clique du Château1010020
Toronto JoyMixed-Affiliated Contingency, Off the Team & Absent: Wong, Adrian010010
Toronto RoflWaterloo Miku010010
Toronto WearyWaterloo Hatsune010010