City That Never Sleeps New York and the Filmic Imagination |
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| Editor:
| Pomerance, Murray |
| Contribution by:
| Dixon, Wheeler Winston
Grant, Barry Keith
Baker, Aaron
Foster, Gwendolyn Audrey
Massood, Paula J.
Carr, Steven Alan
McElhaney, Joe
Rothman, William
Sterritt, David
Gerstner, David
Thom, Randy
Weis, Elizabeth
Bukatman, Scott
Grace, Pamela
Desser, David
Luhr, William
Lehman, Peter |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8135-4032-0 |
| Publication Date: | May 2007 |
| Publisher: | Rutgers University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $38.95 |
Book Description:
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New York, more than any other city, has held a special fascination for filmmakers and viewers. In every decade of Hollywood filmmaking, artists of the screen have fixated upon this fascinating place for its tensions and promises, dazzling illumination and fearsome darkness. From
Street Scene and
Breakfast at Tiffany's to
Rosemary's Baby,
The Warriors, and
25th Hour, the sixteen essays in this book explore the cinematic representation of New...
More Description New York, more than any other city, has held a special fascination for filmmakers and viewers. In every decade of Hollywood filmmaking, artists of the screen have fixated upon this fascinating place for its tensions and promises, dazzling illumination and fearsome darkness. From Street Scene and Breakfast at Tiffany's to Rosemary's Baby, The Warriors, and 25th Hour, the sixteen essays in this book explore the cinematic representation of New York as a city of experience, as a locus of ideographic characters and spaces, as a city of moves and traps, and as a site of allurement and danger.