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- City That Never Sleeps: New York and the Filmic Imagination
- Book
- 2007
- Published by: Rutgers University Press
summary
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. The glittering skyscrapers of such films as On the Town have shadowed the characteristic seedy streets in which desperate, passionate stories have played out-as in Scandal Sheet and The Pawnbroker . In other films, the city is a cauldron of bright lights, technology, empire, egotism, fear, hunger, and change-the scenic epitome of America in the modern age. 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. Contributors consider the work of Woody Allen, Blake Edwards, Alfred Hitchcock, Gregory La Cava, Spike Lee, Sidney Lumet, Vincente Minnelli, Roman Polanski, Martin Scorsese, Andy Warhol, and numerous others.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. ix-x
- Woody Allen’s New York
- pp. 65-76
- Midtown Jewish Masculinity in Body and Soul
- pp. 167-1781
- Stayin' Alive: City of Danger and Adjustment
- pp. 179-182
- Night World: New York as a Noir Universe
- pp. 243-257
- Works Cited and Consulted
- pp. 259-266
- Notes on Contributors
- pp. 267-270
Additional Information
ISBN
9780813541341
Related ISBN(s)
9780813540313
MARC Record
OCLC
173650958
Pages
304
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No