“I Love New York!”: BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’ S

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Prelude: To Wake Up in the City That Never Sleeps 3
5. MEMORY ALL ALONE IN THE MOONLIGHT
6. “I Love New York!”: BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’ S 23
7. A Day in New York: On the Town and The Clock 33
8. Paradise Lost and Found: A Bronx Tale 49
9. THERE’S A PLACE FOR US
10. Woody Allen’s New York 65
11. From Mean Streets to the Gangs of New York 77
12. Can’t Take My Eyes Off of You 91
13. A Clean, Well-Lighted Place 103
14. WHISPERING ESCAPADES OUT ON THE D TRAIN
15. “When We See the Ocean, We Figure We’re Home” 123
16. He Cuts Heads: Spike Lee and the New York Experience 137
17. New York Class-Passing Onscreen in the 1930s 151
18. STAYIN’ ALIVE. City of Danger and Adjustment
19. City of Nightmares: The New York of Sidney Lumet 183
20. Urban Irrational: Rosemary’s Baby, Polanski, New York 201
21. The City That Never Shuts Up: Aural Intrusion in New York Apartment Films 215
22. Wretched Refuse: Watching New York Ethnic Slum Films in the Aftermath of 9/11 229
23. Night World: New York as a Noir Universe 243
24. Works Cited and Consulted 259
25. Notes on Contributors 267
26. Index 271