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City That Never Sleeps
New York and the Filmic Imagination
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Edited by:
Murray Pomerance
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With contributions by:
Wheeler Winston Dixon
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English
Published/Copyright:
2007
About this book
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.
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.
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MURRAY POMERANCE is a professor in the sociology department at Ryerson University and the author and editor of numerous books, including Johnny Depp Starts Here.
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Acknowledgments
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Prelude: To Wake Up in the City That Never Sleeps
3 - MEMORY ALL ALONE IN THE MOONLIGHT
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“I Love New York!”: BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’ S
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A Day in New York: On the Town and The Clock
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Paradise Lost and Found: A Bronx Tale
49 - THERE’S A PLACE FOR US
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Woody Allen’s New York
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From Mean Streets to the Gangs of New York
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Can’t Take My Eyes Off of You
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A Clean, Well-Lighted Place
103 - WHISPERING ESCAPADES OUT ON THE D TRAIN
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“When We See the Ocean, We Figure We’re Home”
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He Cuts Heads: Spike Lee and the New York Experience
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New York Class-Passing Onscreen in the 1930s
151 - STAYIN’ ALIVE. City of Danger and Adjustment
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City of Nightmares: The New York of Sidney Lumet
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Urban Irrational: Rosemary’s Baby, Polanski, New York
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The City That Never Shuts Up: Aural Intrusion in New York Apartment Films
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Wretched Refuse: Watching New York Ethnic Slum Films in the Aftermath of 9/11
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Night World: New York as a Noir Universe
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Works Cited and Consulted
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Notes on Contributors
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Index
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Keywords for this book
New York; NY; New York City; NYC; city; filmmakers; Hollywood; filmmaking; artists; onscreen; urban; skyscrapers; empire; egotism; hunger; fear; opportunity; bright lights; America; modern age; American cities; representation; cinematic; filmic imagination; networking; career; big city; urban life; city life; train; subway; modern; contemporary; growth
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For an expert adult audience, including professional development and academic research
